What is not known about President Duque’s empty chair



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The already strained relationship between President Iván Duque and Bogotá Mayor Claudia López is at a critical point.

Everything, on behalf of act of forgiveness and reconciliation organized by the mayor, which the president could not attend.

It turns out that the mayor invited President Duque through an email he sent at two in the afternoon on Saturday.

The president’s advisers recommended that he not go, among other reasons, because they feared it would be “a trap».

The commissioner for peace was delegated, Miguel Ceballos placeholder image, and the counselor for human rights, Nancy Patricia Gutierrez, to attend.

Upon reaching the Plaza de Bolívar, the two delegates were surprised to see a chair assigned to President Duque; however, the commissioner sat there and immediately, an official from the Mayor’s Office was ordered to hastily put up another chair with the name of President Duque.

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What happened generated unease in the Presidency; A senior official from the Casa de Nariño said: «She proclaims reconciliation, but with this act she did the opposite».

Despite the situation, President Duque gave a categorical order: we must provide all the support that the mayor needs to confront vandalism, handle the pandemic and reactivate the economy …no hard feelings!

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