Colombian left begins resistance against new president: “Abelardo de la Espriella will be an agent of the United States”
Senator and former presidential candidate Iván Cepeda repeated his call to civil disobedience from Barranquilla, at an alternative event to the official inauguration.
Colombian leftists declared themselves in resistance this Friday at the end of Gustavo Petro's four years in power. “We will fight to the limit and beyond to preserve the conquests we have achieved in these years,” Senator and former presidential candidate Iván Cepeda proclaimed during an event in the morning in Barranquilla. “Resistance!
Resistance! Resistance!” his supporters responded. Neither he nor other congressmen from the Pacto Histórico, Gustavo Petro's party, will attend in the afternoon the swearing-in of the far-right Abelardo de la Espriella in Cali. Cepeda reiterated that he questions the legitimacy of the new mayor, on the grounds that he has not renounced his United States citizenship.
“There is an insurmountable incompatibility with the supreme duty of representing with exclusive loyalty the sovereignty and interests of the people of Colombia,” the former presidential candidate justified regarding a fact that is not illegal.
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