Video: Armando Benedetti will arrive in Gustavo Petro’s Human Colombia

On October 15, Senator Armando Benedetti resigned from the U party with which he arrived in Congress in 2018. This Thursday the congressmen surprised with a video in which he announced that he is “walking” towards the Human Colombia of Gustavo Petro.

“The center does not exist in any political theory, what happens is that in Colombia people feel sorry to say if it is from the right or from the left”said the senator.

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Likewise, he expressed that he considers himself to be from the center left and that he is walking there and that he only sees Human Colombia on that road. “Benedetti traces his way to the Human Colombia of Petro”he said on his Twitter account.

This is what Armando Benedetti said:

Senator Gustavo Petro, for his part, only wrote on his Twitter account: “Welcome Benedetti”.

In addition, the senator questioned himself this Thursday on his Twitter: “THE CENTER DOES NOT EXIST according to political theory! So? Do people who are generally from the right but dress or characterize themselves as people from the left belong to the “center”? Or will they both wear costumes at the same time? “.

For now, it is unknown what the politician’s strategy will be for 2022, if he will run again as a senator for the Human Colombia movement or he will be fully accompanying Gustavo Petro’s presidential campaign.

Several politicians are already reacting to this news, including Nicolás Petro, son of Senator Petro, who also welcomed him. But not all are messages of welcome, there are also strong criticisms of Benedetti’s political career.

“The Armando Benedetti to whom Gustavo Petro today says: ‘Welcome to Human Colombia’, is the same one who had the Senate campaign slogan in 2006: ‘100% with Uribe'”, wrote Bogota councilor Julián Rodríguez Sastoque.

The renowned internationalist Yann Basset also opined: “Benedetti’s move makes sense, there is a lot of dormant petrist vote to look for for legislatures on the Caribbean coast”.

Benedetti’s resignation from the U

On the afternoon of October 15, hours after announcement of the departure of Roy Barreras definitive party of ‘the U’, Senator Armando Benedetti, from that same community, followed the example of his colleague and reported his retirement from the political group.

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“One cannot be in a party that is neither the opposition nor the government, that does not help peace, that does not help basic income, that does not help microenterprises. In that game I think I have leftovers and, therefore, I go calm. I hope they are also very calm and happy that I am leaving, ”said Benedetti.

Barreras and Benedetti have been critical of the National Government, Regardless of the fact that his own party, with which they managed to reach the Congress of the Republic, declares himself a friend of the current president.

In total, the two senators – who will retain their seats, as permitted by law – obtained 182,934 votes in 2018: 110,358 for Barreras and 72,576 for Benedetti. In addition, they were the most prominent senators in La U.