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, seeking to depict him as unhealthy radical, one thing very similar to a marketing campaign used towards López Obrador in a failed presidential bid in 2006.
“I wish to say I’m sending a hug to Petro,” López Obrador. “Why a hug? As a result of he’s dealing with a filthy conflict of essentially the most cowardly and undignified sort, the whole thing we suffered in Mexico. All of the conservatives are united, unethically.”
Colombia’s international members of the family ministry shot again on its social media accounts, announcing the Mexican president’s feedback have been “an offensive interference in our nation’s inside affairs.”
“We ask him to admire the autonomy of the Colombian other people to select their subsequent president with out interferences that attempt to affect citizens,” the ministry wrote.
Remaining week Colombian citizens selected Sen. Petro, a former rise up, to run in a 2d spherical towards actual property rich person Rodolfo Hernández, an intruder populist businessman.
Petro led the sector of six applicants Sunday with simply over 40% of the votes, whilst Hernández, who has no shut ties to any political events, completed 2d with greater than 28%.
