This Thursday, April 24, President Gustavo Petro He lashed out at the president of the Senate, Efraín Cepeda, whom he described as “much HP.”
From Soledad, Atlántico, during the installation of the Citizen Committees of the Popular Consultation for the Yes, President Petro lashed out against Cepeda in response to the comments of this about the questions raised for the popular consultation promoted by the Government.
“Efraín Cepeda said, then: hear, but those are the questions you presented, because now we can discuss them in Congress (…). I do not say rudeness, but I wanted to say one: much hp ”, Petro said promptly.
In de, several political voices divided opinions after the insult of President Petro to Congressman Cepeda.
Exceptive Jorge Robledo said that, what Petro did, It was colloquially “Arriar the mother” to Cepeda, from whom the former senator said, his “crime” is that he does not belong to Petrism and that hence the recent attack of the Head of State, from Atlantic.
“It is one of the things, among the many mistakes of Dr. Gustavo Petro, that this is from the worst (…) This is not a dictatorship, here there is separation of powers and each one is very respectable. The congressmen do not have to kneel the Head of State, ”Robledo added in
Therefore, Robledo reminded President Petro that Efraín Cepeda is on behalf of 17 million Colombians who voted to choose the Congress of the Republic, which is why, he cannot come to miss respect, as he did yesterday Thursday from Soledad.
“Petro cannot pretend to kneel the Congress or the president of this, much less send those messages That, what they do is finish complicating things in Colombia. These messages can lead to violence, even, ”said the former senator.
For his part, Gabriel Becerra, representative by historical pact, said President Petro was not “no Jota Pe Hernándeznot a pole pole “and that on the contrary, according to him, he is a man who has shone, hence today the president of Colombia.
However, Becerra began by saying in the debate that President Petro has had is a great political capacity to be able to face their opponents in multiple scenarios.
“What happens is also, that Things have their limit and human beings have their limits. I believe that very few presidents and few political figures have been attacked with the intensity, with disrespect, the lie, as the current President Petro has been attacked, ”the representative told the Chamber.
