Petro is the elected president of Colombia with more than 50% of the votes 1:44
(CNN Spanish) --
The elected president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, told CNN when he was a candidate that if he won the presidency on June 19, he would carry out three first actions in his government: the fight against hunger, asking the UN an investigation commission against corruption and end fracking in Colombia.
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According to Petro, the most urgent thing to do in Colombia is to address the problem of hunger, because, as he said, it is a problem that is growing despite the decline of the coronavirus, which was one of the causes of the social crisis in the country. in 2020. But now, he says, with the war in Ukraine, the increase in oil prices, the fall of the Colombian peso and the country importing supplies, hunger is increasing in the country.
"The country's poverty levels are almost reaching 40%. It is growing. Between now and August, the day of inauguration, we have to face that problem immediately," Petro told CNN.
The other priority for Petro will be to make sure that an independent investigative commission is created, working alongside the country's Attorney General's Office.
Petro is the elected president of Colombia with more than 50% of the votes 1:44
The commission, similar to that of the CICIG in Guatemala, would investigate the "most prominent acts of corruption that we have had in recent times and remove the impunity that has been exercised over these acts," said the presidential candidate, without making specific reference to What facts would be investigated?
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And finally, Petro spoke of his third priority upon reaching government: "Fracking is over in Colombia," he told CNN.
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One of the biggest obstacles facing Petro is the distrust generated by his program in terms of economic policy.
In an interview with CNN, the journalist Juanita León explained that the tax reform proposals, the change in the health system and pensions "are issues in which investors generate a lot of concern."
From the path opposite to Petro —beyond his rival in the second round— they have criticized the economic model in his government plan: Gutierrez said "that it would be a danger to the economy" and Sergio Fajardo says that his programs are "impossible".
In an interview with El Tiempo, the president of the National Association of Colombian Entrepreneurs (ANDI), Bruce Mac Master, stated that Petro's fiscal proposal "is not feasible."
and that the reform that he proposes of the energy matrix would imply a burden for Colombia in "exchange rate, exchange balance, inflation, poverty, employment."
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Leaked videos are a 'watergate,' says Petro
Finally, Petro referred to the scandal that broke out in the last days of the campaign in Colombian media that leaked videos of their meetings.
The videos were published by local media attributing them to anonymous sources.
CNN has not verified the videos or established their origin.
Petro said they correspond to months of recordings of her campaign.
"It's a Watergate on a colossal scale and it's on a huge scale. For seven months, permanently, all of our virtual meetings were intercepted in the broadcasts and that's a crime," Petro said.
"Events have made it possible to see that in seven months of interference to our communications there have been no crimes.
"What was said about me does not appear in a single conversation of those: neither that I am going to be re-elected, nor that I am going to expropriate, nor that I am going to return to Colombia like Venezuela, nor that we are going to burn churches," he said at the time. candidate, adding that justice will be in charge of establishing who carried out that operation.
His campaign team filed a complaint with the Prosecutor's Office about the leak in his presidential campaign.
Meanwhile, the Prosecutor's Office investigates the content of the videos after the Citizen Oversight Network denounced the alleged violation of the caps or the delivery of resources to finance the presidential campaign.
-- With information from Fernando Ramos of CNN en Español in Bogotá.
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