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The senator for the Democratic Center Paloma Valencia used harsh words on Monday against the former presidential candidate and left-wing congressman Gustavo Petro, to whom she even told that “he would never” be president of the Republic.
The issue that sparked the fight between the two congressmen It was Petro’s insistence that the National Government and Uribism would be representing a “dictatorship”.
This Monday, in the First Committee of the Senate, Senator Paloma responded to Petro his insistent mentions about the supposed dictatorship and told him that he is the one who “intends to govern Congress as if it were his own dictatorship.”
“I respect very much that you want and long for a dictatorship in which you say how the sessions are held and also define what is legal and illegal (…) Do not impose your dictatorship on us, because in this congress you are not president, nor will you ever be president of Colombia, thank God“The Uribe congresswoman told the left-wing senator.
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Visibly angry, Petro responded to Paloma and recriminated her for various actions that have happened in this time and that, according to him, are the fault of the National Government.
Senator Petro lost the elections and lost them because he did not win the favor of all Colombians
For Petro, the dictatorship consists in the fact that the Executive and the Uribismo chose “the candidate for the Constitutional Court that suited them”, the attorney and the prosecutor “that suits them” want “the majority of the Constitutional Court” and, as if they were lacking, “they want to intimidate the Supreme Court of Justice, because it is judging their political boss.”
“I am a free man. No one here is going to scold or intimidate me because of what I say or not, least of all Senator Paloma Valencia. Let them intimidate the people, as they have perhaps done, but they are not going to intimidate me, “said Petro.
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