Chavismo expresses support for Gustavo Petro due to investigation by the electoral entity

The first vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, assured this Wednesday that Chavismo will always be on the side of the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petroafter the National Electoral Council (CNE) will formulate charges against its 2022 campaign “for the alleged violation of the financing regime.”

«We will be in favor of Petro, always, without double positions. “Between Petro and (Iván) Duque I have nothing to choose, it is clear that I am going to support Petro,” said the also Minister of the Interior in his weekly television program. With the gavel giving.

Cabello maintained that it is sad to be naive to think that the drug paramilitaries were going to let Gustavo Petro govern in Colombia.

«The naivety is sad, the naivety of thinking that he was governing, of thinking that he could govern Colombia, that the narco paramilitarism was going to let him govern Colombia, that they were going to hand that country over to a president like him, he has not “he could not govern even a day,” he added.

The Chavista leader said that I hope these things help the Colombian president to understand that they tried to carry out a coup d’état against Venezuela on July 28.when the presidential elections were held, in which the National Electoral Council (CNE) proclaimed Nicolás Maduro as the winner, questioned inside and outside the country.

“They will never use Venezuela to harm Colombia (…) to harm Brazil,” added Cabello.

Electoral body files charges against Gustavo Petro

The CNE of Colombia announced on Tuesday that it decided to open an investigation and file charges against Gustavo Petro and members of his team for allegedly violating the spending limits established in his presidential campaign and resorting to prohibited sources that did not declare.

Petro responded with strong criticism of the electoral body by ensuring that it is “infiltrated by the same politicians who have governed the country for decades.”

The Colombian leader maintained the day before that the CNE’s decision is “the first step of a coup d’état” against him and his government announced today that it appealed that determination to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IDC Court), considering that violates the popular vote that elected Petro president in 2022.