Mexico’s president has claimed the leftist candidate in Colombia’s presidential race faces “a grimy struggle” by “conservatives,” main the Colombian authorities to inform President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to remain out of its home politics
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s president has claimed the leftist candidate in Colombia’s presidential race faces “a grimy struggle” by “conservatives,” main the Colombian authorities to inform President Andrés Manuel López Obrador Friday to remain out of its home politics.
López Obrador makes an enormous level of claiming he doesn’t intervene in different international locations’ inside affairs, and has used that as an excuse to keep away from criticizing non-democratic regimes like Nicaragua and Cuba.
However on Friday López Obrador blasted the opposition to front-running presidential candidate, the leftist Gustavo Petro. López Obrador claimed Petro faces a scare marketing campaign, attempting to depict him as harmful radical, one thing just like a marketing campaign used in opposition to López Obrador in a failed presidential bid in 2006.
“I wish to say I am sending a hug to Petro,” López Obrador. “Why a hug? As a result of he’s going through a grimy struggle of probably the most cowardly and undignified sort, every thing we suffered in Mexico. All of the conservatives are united, unethically.”
Colombia’s overseas relations ministry shot again on its social media accounts, saying the Mexican president’s feedback had been “an offensive interference in our nation’s inside affairs.”
“We ask him to respect the autonomy of the Colombian folks to decide on their subsequent president with out interferences that attempt to affect voters,” the ministry wrote.
Final week Colombian voters selected Sen. Petro, a former insurgent, to run in a second spherical in opposition to actual property tycoon Rodolfo Hernández, an outsider populist businessman.
Petro led the sector of six candidates Sunday with simply over 40% of the votes, whereas Hernández, who has no shut ties to any political events, completed second with greater than 28%.
