Gustavo Petro also compares Álvaro Uribe with Jesus Christ, but to send him strong criticism

On Saturday morning, Senator Gustavo Petro responded to Vice President Ramírez about the controversial message where he compares Uribe to Jesus Christ. The senator sent a hint to the vice president, insinuating that Jesus Christ had never committed actions that compromised the lives of others, referring to the allegations against former President Uribe in recent years.

“Jesus Christ would never have organized paramilitaries, he would never have covered up drug traffickers, he would never have confused the politics of love with allowing massacres. ”, Expressed the senator through his Twitter account.

The topic became so viral that a trend was created in the social network called ‘Jesuribe’, through which Internet users filled Twitter with memes regarding Uribe’s comparison with Jesus.

“When Jesuribe walked on the waters”Wrote one of the Twitter users.

“Milagros de Jesuribe, took the devil out of a woman“Commented Tola and Maruja on their official Twitter account, attaching an image of Senator Paloma Valencia.

The controversy began on November 12, when the firm Cifras y Conceptos released its opinion panel, which assesses what some opinion leaders in the country think about political issues and who they consult for information. In the results, it was highlighted that the positive image of the former president and former senator leader of Uribe fell.

In his Twitter account Uribe admitted that the deterioration of his image. However, he assured that this does not separate him from “think about the present and the future of Colombia, about the risk of the extreme left or permissive mentalities”.

Before the trill of the ex-president, the vice president of Colombia, Marta Lucía Ramírez, made the Tweet that caused the wave of reactions on the social network, and for which Álvaro Uribe became a trend as ‘Jesuribe’.

The president expressed on the social network that the “service” that the former senator has given to the country “has been very great.” But he also commented that: “We have always seen it and in the case of Jesus Christ we saw that he collected hatred, even though he did so much good for humanity”.

Before the comment of Vice President Ramírez, many recalled the episode of the controversial painting of the “Sacred Heart of Álvaro Uribe” that Senator Paloma Valencia has in her home. As commented at the time, the painting It is part of the work ‘Popular Saints’ by the artist María Alejandra Muñoz, close friend of the senator.

Although Álvaro Uribe is no longer a senator, he appeared in the poll in question, in which it presented a hard fall compared to last year. While in 2019 it was ranked third, it currently dropped to seventh.

The former senator was surpassed this year by Iván Cepeda (10%), Angélica Lozano (9%), Gustavo Petro (8%) and Roy Barreras (7%), the latter tied with the liberal Luis Fernando Velasco.

In the same way, in the Cifras y Conceptos opinion panel, which consulted 2,004 leaders of the country, among whom are congressmen, councilors, journalists and large businessmen, who, according to the results, They no longer see Álvaro Uribe as one of the most influential politicians in the country. Although the former senator is in the top 5 of the most read tweeters in Colombia.

The top five of tweeters is headed by Daniel Samper Ospina, with 9 percent. They are followed by Daniel Coronell, Gustavo Petro, Félix de Bedout and Álvaro Uribe Vélez with a figure of 7 percent each. Behind goes Vicky Dávila, with the 4, and La Pulla, with the 3.

The pollster Invamer also pointed out, on October 29, that former President Álvaro Uribe had a deterioration in his approval, with 61% negative image, when, in the month of August, it was 53%. The former senator did not reach this figure since August 2019. The decrease in his popularity has been occurring since June 2018, when he scored 52%. However, he assured that this does not stop him from “thinking about the present and the future of Colombia, at the risk of the extreme left or permissive mentalities. ”However, he assured that this does not prevent him from“ thinking about the present and the future of Colombia, at the risk of the extreme left or permissive mentalities ”.

In 2020, Álvaro Uribe Vélez was tried by the Court, was under house arrest and, recently, although he recovered his freedom, a criminal judge of the Bogotá circuit decided in second instance that the ex-president will continue to be formally linked to the process against him for the crimes of procedural fraud and bribery in criminal proceedings that, allegedly, the Colombian politician would have committed.

Uribe also resigned from the Senate on August 18 and he lost his parliamentary jurisdiction, so the case against him passed from the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court to the Attorney General’s Office.

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