2023-06-05 22:25:08
policy
The meeting was held at the Casa de Nariño.
5/6/2023
Faced with the deep crisis that the National Government of the Historical Pact is going through, which was exacerbated by the explosive audios of former ambassador Armando Benedetti, revealed exclusively by SEMANA, President Gustavo Petro began to move his chips.
In the meeting that took place in the Casa de Nariño, the Interior Minister Luis Fernando Velasco, the Environment Minister and various members of the Pacto Histórico political party, analyzing the measures and strategies that must be implemented to get out of the crisis in which the Government finds itself.
Besides, The situation of the former head of the Office of the Presidency of the Republic Laura Sarabia was addressed, who is in the eye of the hurricane for the case of the illegal attacks on her former babysitter Marelbys Meza and regarding an alleged abuse of power for taking that woman to polygraph test, despite the fact that she was not a public official for the alleged theft of a large sum of money that was in the residence of Sarabia.
It is not a secret that the political impact that the Benedetti audios brought as a consequence leaves that political movement in a bad lightwith a view to the next regional elections where mayors and governors will be elected next October.
This Monday, June 5, Jorge Mario Gómez Restrepo, defense attorney for Laura Sarabia Torres, spoke in a statement on the events surrounding the former chief of staff of President Gustavo Petro. In the document, the attorney assured that the former official will defend herself once morest the “outrageous and humiliating” attacks to which she was subjected by Armando Benedetti.
The lawyer refers directly to the audios revealed by WEEK, in which Benedetti speaks directly to Sarabia. Remember that since her resignation, the former official denounced “malicious actions” to harm her.
“It is important to clarify that he stated from the moment of his resignation that there were malicious actions revealed by a person who sought to harm a government that was committed to change,” stated the representative of Sarabia.
Additionally, Gómez Restrepo stressed Sarabia’s “commitment, support and conviction” with President Gustavo Petro. For this reason, he reported that the former official will go “to each and every one of the calls” of the justice and control entities to clarify and explain the facts that entangle her.
“She will defend herself from the outrageous and humiliating attacks to which she was subjected as a woman long ago by Armando Benedetti,” read in the statement.
Finally, the attorney stressed that “as head of the cabinet at all times and acting, he firmly protected the institutional framework with honesty and transparency, he never gave in to blackmail and threats that sought personal interests.”
On Friday of last week, in an Army promotion ceremony and in relation to Sarabia, the president defended the one who appeared as the head of his office, being one of the most powerful women in Colombia: “They (have) not stopped to even think what a young woman recently given birth with her first child might think, with her first maternal experience, when an event happens to her in her domestic life that makes her feel uneasy and she reacts within the law to the point that the polygraph was used and I haven’t even been able to find out where she is”.
Attention: Laura Sarabia, former head of President Petro’s office, suffered a fainting spell in the Casa de Nariño, what happened?
Senior sources from the Casa de Nariño confirmed to SEMANA that the former chief of office of President Gustavo Petro, suffered a picture of decompensation fainting while leaving the Presidential Palace.
According to the sources consulted, Sarabia faced a strong episode of stress, which is why she had to be treated by paramedics who, following reviewing her, managed to stabilize her.
Sarabia He is in the eye of the hurricane due to the scandal of the illegal hacks once morest his ex-nanny Marelbys Meza and of an alleged abuse of power for taking her to the polygraph room in the Galán building in front of the Casa de Nariño.
The former head of the Office and who was the right hand of the head of State Gustavo Petro He was on Monday, June 5, at the Presidential Palace, finalizing details and procedures corresponding to the delivery of his position, following the president removed her from his government on Friday of last week.
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