In a new episode that should reflect the internal fractures within the Democratic Center (CD), former presidential candidate Miguel Uribe Londoño once again attacked the leadership of the party led by former President Álvaro Uribe Vélez. In statements he revealed his deep pain over the death of his son, senator and candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay, but also a certain dislike for the way this event was handled within the community.
In statements about Telemundo 51The pre-candidate denounced the pressure within the party; He also suggested that the harassment suffered by his son Miguel Uribe Turbay was linked to his murder. In an exclusive interview with journalist Gloria Ordaz, the Colombian politician said: “I feel freed from a gag that I had,” alluding to the pressure he said he faced during his stay in the community. Telemundo 51.
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Uribe Londoño said that his departure was not voluntary, But the result of a decision by the party leadership, which he described as unfair and premature. “I did not leave the Democratic Center Party. Someone, some manager, based on an unfair, hasty decision, because they didn’t want me in the party, didn’t want me to be the nominee, made the decision to exclude me from the process without… without due process, without asking me anything,” he explained.
The controversy intensified when the veteran politician raised his son’s case. who was also a centrist Democratic candidate and was the victim of a fatal attack. And he pointed to those who were the pre-candidates of the Community: María Fernanda Cabal, Paola Holguín and the one chosen for her representativeness: Paloma Valencia, who was the winner of the internal processes that ended with the decantation on Monday, December 15th.
“They harassed Miguel, they threatened the party and his fellow candidates because he beat them. And part of that harassment led to his death because Miguel took to the streets to campaign politically.because of his enormous desire that he would beat him because they would be the candidates and they forced him into so-called street politics in the party,” Uribe Londoño explained to the above-mentioned media, sparking controversy since he would have blamed the CD for the event.
Amid speculation about his alleged support for the presidential campaign of Abelardo de la Espriella, who tops the list of the right-wing sectors, the former presidential candidate denied having given political support to the lawyer. “I didn’t support Abelardo. I agreed to talk to him because he “He offered me to be his candidate for vice president,” explained Uribe Londoño Telemundo 51in an interview that showed
He also noted the weight of Colombians’ voices abroadparticularly in the United States, and appears to have left open the possibility of the race continuing. “My situation in terms of the violence that I have had to experience and the magnitude of the victim that I have fallen victim to the drug trade make me the candidate with the greatest ability to make the decisions that need to be made, because they can be annoying, they can be very difficult and my hand will not shake.”
At the international level, Uribe Londoño reiterated his support for the United States military operation in the Caribbean, aligning himself with Washington’s foreign policy. “I agree that they are doing it because they are committing a crime.” And in international waters too, but even if it were further inland, what they are doing is a crime. This has to come to an end. That’s why I support what President Trump is doing,” said Miguel Uribe Londoño.
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