A political storm arose in Medellín during the Reyes Bridge. At the center of the controversy is the mayor Daniel Quintero. First, the president classified political and business leaders as “gangsters” and, this Monday, the Registrar’s Office confirmed its recall process. Leaders have reacted.
“The Registrar’s Office rejected our challenge to the signatures of the revocation and it did not allow our graphologists to access the original signatures ”, The president wrote on Twitter as a reaction to the decision that gives free rein to the revocation process.
Initially, the Registry had endorsed 132,908 signatures of the 91,211 that were needed to open the revocation. Given that endorsement, Quintero challenged because he considered that, at least 35,000 signatures had irregularities. The institution rejected it and in two months, approximately, citizens will go to the polls to decide the future of the mayor of Medellín.
Before the decision of the Registrar, political leaders have spoken.
One of them is Quintero’s predecessor, Federico Gutiérrez. According to the presidential candidate, this is another lie that falls: “and this time on top and overwhelmingly. Supplanting functions of the Registrar, Quintero he misled saying the signatures would be fake and invalid. Registrar Alexander Vega has just revalidated them. No more cheating. To take care of Medellín ”.
For his part, Sergio Fajardo, also a former mayor and candidate for the Centro Esperanza coalition, cited a psychological concept to refer to the still mayor of Medellín.
According to Fajardo, Quintero might have psychological anomia which consists in that “the individual values individual interests and motivations above societal interests because he has stopped respecting them since for him all those norms and conventions have lost their meaning ”.
For his part, Oswaldo Gómez, a former member of the EPM Board of Directors, asked himself on Twitter, regarding the decision of the Registrar’s Office that “today a question is pertinent: When is the future?”
On the other hand, the spokesperson for the Pact for Medellín, Andrés Rodríguez, wrote: “The Registrar’s Office ratifies its decision. The lies and attacks once morest the Revocation of Daniel Quintero did not take effect, we are prepared. We go to the polls to vote to remove the rogue mayor. “
Another of those who spoke was the former Minister of Health and presidential candidate, Alejandro Gaviria. For him “what is happening in Medellín it might happen throughout Colombia if division and populism prevail ”.
In defense of Mayor Quintero came Alex Flórez, former councilman and candidate on the Senate lists for the Historical Pact, according to him, character and courage are required to confront economic clans “that see politics as a space to fill their pockets and not to serve the people” and added that Quintero Calle “is a paradise.”
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