This Wednesday night, four videos were released, in one of which the senator is heard
Roy Barreras, at a campaign meeting,
talking about meetings
“leaders of the Historical Pact offering non-extradition to those extraditable”
from jail the pillory Bogotá, news that was known in mid-April.
Foreseeing that the scandal could become public at any moment, Barreras affirms that it is prudent “explode it in a controlled way” and says it in the following terms: “Leaders of the Historical Pact, offering non-extradition to those who can be extradited. They are going to remove it soon. You have to explode it, like when you explode an explosive in a controlled way. The campaign has to warn, disqualify it and not go out and say: ‘the person who was , I wanted to say something else, or that extradition is a neocolonial thing, no, no, no'”.
Indeed, days after knowing the approaches of Gustavo Petro’s brother,
John Ferdinand Petro
with parapoliticians and extraditables in jail the pilloryRoy Barreras said that the latter should apologize to the Historical Pact.
Other images show a meeting that was attended by the
Gustavo Petro candidate
and the senator Armando Benedettiin which Roy Barreras outlines a controversial strategy to divide the center and attack Alejandro Gaviria, whom he says he considers an electoral threat.
“We have two things to do: either divide that center more and make it
Mr. Fajardo, who is also unreliable,
can survive to divide the vote in the center, we said it before Gustavo arrived, including trying to save Fajardo and pressuring him to accept Petro’s invitation to do a competition with us, or the opposite, because Fajardo is a threat ” Barreras declared.
“If that is not the strategy, what we have to define is to go to
attack on Alejandro Gaviria
and I said 15 days ago: it cannot be Petro who attacks her. Vinicio said, she is a charity lady that no one can treat badly, because she cannot treat Petro badly, but I can treat him badly and whoever joins too, “she added.
In another video, Barriers asks to think “tactically if we have to divide the center or not, if that is of any use bringing the abandoned Fajardo, or rather we go head-on against Alejandro Gaviria, decide what to do, we are ready to go to battle”
Even, Barreras speaks of manufacturing differences within the Historical Pact as a strategy: “Let’s use the next meeting to strategically define each other’s roles, how we differentiate ourselves, fabricate differences, even prepare contradictions if that is useful.”
The leak of the video left a wave of reactions on social networks, including former presidential candidate Federico Gutiérrez. “I am not surprised by what Petro’s campaign and Petro himself did, to discredit his political rivals, including me. Everything will come to light. Who was part of an illegal group that killed and kidnapped, is capable of the most “minimal” that is to discredit others, “he wrote.
Roy Barreras responds
congressman
Roy Barreras
in the midst of the scandal generated by the revelation of the video in which he appears giving controversial instructions in the middle of a meeting with members of the Historical Pact, responded through his Twitter account that the campaign of
Gustavo Petro
is the object of a “true dirty war” to impact public opinion.
“Our campaign is being illegally hacked and infiltrated, for less a government and a right-wing party fell at Watergate”, declared the senator who has been in the eye of the political hurricane since last night.
Barerras assured that in the videos
“there is no illegal act, no strange plan”
and that they only show “strategy conversations, analyzing competitors, scenarios and actions as all campaigns in the world do”.
He added that the videos are from 10 months ago and there are no grievances, no disqualifications, no insults against Alejandro Gaviria or against Sergio Fajardo. What there is, according to Barreras, it is a very serious fact and a crime to have infiltrated Gustavo Petro’s campaign, For this reason, he asked the Attorney General’s Office to investigate those responsible for these leaks, which today has the political race for the House of Nariño in suspense.
“Who hit? Who infiltrated? Who recorded? Who leaked? Who benefits from these new illegal wiretappings?” said Barreras.
I land from a tour and encounter a media storm with illegal recordings of private campaign meetings. The first thing is obvious: Our campaign is being ILLEGALLY BUSTED AND INFILTRATED. For less a government and a right-wing party fell in WATERGATE! I open thread:
— Roy Barreras (@RoyBarreras) June 9, 2022
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When the scandal became known, the head of the Historical Pact debate, Alfonso Prada, assured that the visits to La Picota were not ordered by the campaign and that there was no talk of “social forgiveness.”
