Iván Duque’s reference to Gustavo Petro in statements in Rionegro
A less than ten days before the legislative elections and the inter-party consultationsPresident Iván Duque, who by mandate of the political constitution cannot participate in political activities and controversies, said this Friday during his visit to Rionegro that Colombian democracy is being stalked by post-truth “when it sells narratives and not realities as happened with Chavismo,” explained the president, and also because of populism, “go see if populism will take away hunger,” he said.
Although he did not specify who he was referring to. The statement was made just a day later that he stated on Blu Radio that Gustavo Petro’s proposal to declare an economic emergency to end hunger was “populist” and “demagogic.”
“It seems to me that to say that through an economic declaration hunger is over is demagogic and populist. If the declarations of economic emergency put an end to hunger, hunger would have ended in the world”, asserted the president.
The intervention took place in the middle of the Workshop Building Country No. 100 in Rionegro. In this he also asserted that “democracies you have to defend and take care of them”.
