Photograph taken from: El Colombiano
In December 2013, we discovered of the shut relationship between Gustavo Petro and Jean Luc Mélenchon. On the time, Petro was mayor of Bogotá and had turn out to be concerned in a dispute with Legal professional Basic Alejandro Ordoñez that will finish together with his dismissal. From France, Mélenchon, chief of the French left, issued a press release: “Like all true associates of Colombia, we don’t wish to intrude within the institutional and authorized mechanisms of your nation. The gap naturally encourages us to be respectful and prudent. However there are additionally many people who want to convey our deep concern to you!”
Recognizing in his letter that Colombia is an instance of the battle for the precepts of the French Revolution, he brazenly criticized Ordoñez’s radicalized place. Since then, each politicians, regardless of the gap, have maintained a robust relationship. A month after profitable the elections, Mélenchon visited Colombia. At 73 years previous, he has been a deputy, since 2017, within the Nationwide Meeting representing the France Insoumise get together. Within the 2017 presidential elections he achieved fourth place in these elections with 19.58%. In 2022 he tried once more and acquired 21.95% of the votes. He’s the son of French dad and mom settled in Algeria. He has taken on the difficulty of migration as his personal. He’s a thinker and on July 7 he achieved his best political victory. In opposition to all odds, the New Well-liked Entrance Left Coalition received a victory within the second spherical of the parliamentary elections. He has been criticized for his place of help for the federal government of Nicolás Maduro.
The friendship was made clear on July 26, 2022, when he arrived in Bogotá. At the moment, he even took pictures with Armando Benedetti, who was the shadow of the present president in that presidential marketing campaign. Mélenchon mentioned about Petro that he was “essentially the most superior in pondering” in comparison with different nationwide politicians. There have been concepts of Petro that seduced him, resembling his place on local weather change as a supply of innovation, of funding. He even had some measured phrases with Armando Benedetti. About him, he mentioned throughout that go to that he’s a progressive who works for the protection of employees’ rights and the redistribution of wealth. It’s not identified if, after the scandals that Benedetti has been concerned in, Mélenchon nonetheless believes the identical. Throughout that very same go to, he met with Francia Márquez, vp, whom the candidate knew for her environmental battle. From the assembly it was concluded that France and Colombia had issues in frequent, particularly concerning the surroundings.
As soon as the outcomes have been identified in France, President Petro declared “The Nazis are retreating, humanity has a brand new alternative” referring to the defeat of the French proper, led by Marine Le Pen, the chief of the Nationwide Rally, who had received within the first spherical. Le Pen was relegated to 3rd place. Her place towards immigration has led to her and her motion being branded as racist.
