“A few weeks ago, Rodolfo, you were here with me. I interviewed you. You said that Petro was surrounded by the worst of Colombian politics, by gangsters, by bandits. You said that Petro wanted to kill you.” In this way, the journalist Jaime Bayly attacked the engineer Rodolfo Hernández following the controversy that was generated by a meeting with President-elect Gustavo Petro.
In his television program, from Miami, the renowned journalist dedicated a few minutes to criticize what he described as a “climbing attitude” on the part of Hernández the fact that not be assuming the flags of the opposition in Colombia.
“You said, Rodolfo, that Petro wanted to kill you, and now? You should be the leader of the opposition. Very well, you meet with the elected president, but you preserve your dignity as an opposition leader. Your role is not to support Petro unconditionally, that seems opportunistic, climber. No, a politician with convictions clings to them and says: well, I’ll be in the opposition. It is not regarding applauding and hugging Petro like that. I, who supported him in the second round, feel disappointed”, said Bayly.
And it is that, without a doubt, although millions of those who voted for Rodolfo Hernández thought that he would lead the opposition in the seat granted by the Statute of the Opposition, the engineer surprised by affirming that he would take over as senator, but that he would not go once morest the new president of Colombia.
For this reason, Hernández once once more surprised those who supported him at the polls with some images that he published on his social networks, where he appears together with Petro and affirming that “the change has begun.”
The meeting took place last Tuesday (June 28) in the north of Bogotá, and although there are not many details regarding it, the truth is that an appointment was made that it was being programmed since last week.
For his part, Petro also published the same photograph on his Twitter account, stating that a “national agreement” was needed and stressed that in meetings like the ones he held with Hernández, the “change” had already begun.
