The campaign of presidential candidate Rodolfo Hernández issued a press release on the followingnoon of this Friday, June 10, in which he referred to the controversy generated by the abrupt interruption of an interview that the former mayor of Bucaramanga conducted with the network Telemundoduring his visit to the city of Miami, United States.
The interruption occurred when journalist Rogelio Mora questioned the candidate regarding the Vitalogic case for which he was charged by the Attorney General’s Office. “One of the campaign slogans is once morest corruption, and yet you are facing a judicial process that begins on July 21 for improper contracts. Could you tell us regarding that, please?” the journalist pointed out seconds before two people appeared, including a woman, who indicated that time had passed and asked to end the interview.
In the face of criticism, Hernández’s campaign stated that the people who stopped the conversation are not part of the communication team or advisers to the candidate.
“The person who interrupted the interview with journalist Rogelio Mora-Tagle from Noticias Telemundo he does not belong to his team of advisers and neither does he belong to the campaign,” the statement said.
The campaign also referred in the text to “incidents” that occurred during a press conference given by the candidate in Miami, which they assured “were carried out by people who are not part” of it.
In the statement, it is also stated that Hernández’s campaign does not have an international coordinator “or someone who represents or is an official spokesperson for the candidate outside of Colombia.” Likewise, they assure that two people are “attributing charges that do not correspond to them.”
“Alfred Santamaría and Tatyana Janer are attributing positions and functions that do not correspond to them. In the city of Miami there is no press officer. It should be noted that the presidential campaign of Rodolfo Hernández is coordinated from Bucaramanga, Santander, and the media agenda is managed by Claudia Aceros and the director of communications Luisa Olejua”, stressed the Hernández team.
Hernandez managed to answer
Despite the interruption, the former mayor of Bucaramanga managed to answer the question. “Look, Rogelio, they didn’t put just one in me, they put 200 processes in me (…) You cannot pretend to ask that question to discredit me, when what I have done is serve you. I have a clean soul, I have not stolen a peso, I have never stolen it, nor will I ever steal it”, said the presidential candidate.
The journalist from Telemundo He also referred to what happened with Hernández. “Very important regarding the interruption during the interview: the candidate was always ready to respond, in fact he was responding when he was interrupted, at no time was he upset or rude to me”, the communicator wrote on his official Twitter account.
Hernández also had time to grant an interview to the Peruvian Jaime Bayly, in which he answered several questions. One of them, the presidential possession. The engineer has said on several occasions that, if he reaches the Casa de Nariño, he will not take office in Bogotá and that he will do so in one of the towns with the least resources in Colombia.
Given this, Bayly asked him: “If you win, would you invite Nicolás Maduro?” Hernández was forceful in his response. “No, I’m not going to invite anyone.” The Peruvian was surprised and told him that he was not going to invite him either. Laughing, the engineer answered. “Yes to you.”
Bayly made it clear that to go in accordance with the candidate’s austerity, he said that the ticket would be paid.
“All those social expressions in the majority are hypocritical. So 1,500 people come to me there, you have to give them whiskey, you have to give them caviar and a little bit of attention. That day it is worth more than 600,000 dollars and for what? Many lizard people go there, they have never supported anything and they go there only to maintain privileges or increase them”, Hernández argued regarding his proposal to have a possession without extra costs.
During the conversation, which revolved around various electoral campaign issues, the journalist praised the former mayor of Bucaramanga, calling him a “winner” and a “successful man.” “It is rare to find a politician who comes from private business and who is a winner, a successful man. Therefore, he does not enter politics to thrive, he enters to serve, ”he said during the program broadcast by the Mega TV channel.