Petro reiterated his position on the term "Nazi" After failure of the State Council

President Gustavo Petro published a statement in his X account, where He delivered on the State Council ruling dated January 31 and notified on February 7 of this year. The president reaffirmed his position on the use of the term ‘Nazi’ and clarified his statements made in December 2024.

Petro stressed that, as a Democrat, he recognizes the importance of the presumption of legality of judicial decisions.

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“As I said on February 7, 2024, which Not as long as the word “Nazi” is used, someone is being genocidal or a war criminal. But I cannot ignore when someone stigmatizes voters, for the mere fact of sympathizing with my ideas and defending my government project. That is going over the popular majority vote in Colombia and pursuing the difference by disagreeing, it is “outlier” democracy, “said the president in his X account.

According to the president, the stigmatization of those who disagree politically and the use of the term “Nazi” in that context constitutes a way of “profile” democracy, which he considered unacceptable.

“I did not call genocidal or war criminals who with the shield of freedom of opinion stigmatize And they rotate to the left and progressivism. Stigmatizing the difference by disagreeing is “profile” democracy, “he wrote.

Also, President Petro stressed that his message of December 21, 2024 had been misunderstood, and assured that the clarifications made in February 2025 ratified the original intention of his words.

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“My message was interpreted in such a way that it does not conform to the original intention or the context in which it was issued on December 21, 2024, which I ratified with the statements of February 7, 2025, ”said the president.

The trill that generated the legal action, the head of state had indicated that Hannah Escobar and the other people on whom he directed his message were “Nazis, like these who outline left militants, killing 300,000 peasants through discrimination And political sectarianism and then murdered more than 5,000 UP militants. ”