The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, declared this Wednesday (05/15/2024) earlier than the Prosecutor’s Workplace as a sufferer within the investigation into attainable unlawful infiltrations of his marketing campaign in 2022, a case that the leftist described as a “Watergate.”
The president gave his model “earlier than a prosecutor and a delegate from the Legal professional Basic’s Workplace,” the physique in command of investigating officers, “within the investigation into the illicit recording of personal conferences within the final marketing campaign,” in keeping with a message from the Presidency.
The Prosecutor’s Workplace is investigating whether or not digital conversations between then-candidate Petro and his crew had been illegally leaked to the press in June 2022, two months earlier than he got here to energy.
Some media retailers revealed a video by which Petro spoke together with his advisors about marketing campaign methods to defeat primarily the right-wing Federico Gutiérrez and the ‘outsider’ and businessman Rodolfo Hernández.
Who had been accountable?
Earlier than testifying, the president in contrast the occasion to “Watergate”, because the political espionage scandal in the USA is thought in the course of the Seventies.
“Who had been liable for intercepting the communications of my presidential marketing campaign for nearly a whole 12 months?” questioned the primary leftist to change into president of Colombia on the social community X.
In 2011, when he was an opposition senator, Petro denounced the defunct Administrative Division of Safety (DAS), the previous intelligence unit, and different State entities for wiretapping in opposition to him between 2006 and 2009. An administrative court docket dominated in his favor. and in 2020 he condemned the nation for this harassment.
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