Petro does not give in on key issues and improves his popularity. He does not let Chancellor Álvaro Leyva fall for having turned an administrative issue, the printing of passports, into an institutional crisis.

Petro's insistence that the Supreme Court soon elect a new attorney general; Leyva's closed defense; and the appointments of Sarabia, added to that of Gustavo Bolívar, in high positions in the Government are a sign that he remains attached to this formula.