The Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, denied this Sunday the authenticity of some alleged WhatsApp messages released by the presidential journalist and candidate Vicky Dávila, in which there is talk of alleged excesses of his at a party during his 2022 campaign, and said that these are “edited words” to manipulate public opinion.
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Dávila, who registered in June his Citizen Movement ‘Valientes’, published a statement andn He who said he had access to private conversations between the president’s son, Nicolás Petro, and his ex -wife, Daysuris Vásquez, a key witness in the judicial process facing the president’s firstborn for alleged money laundering and illicit enrichment.
According to Dávila, those conversations, which are supposedly part of the prosecutor’s file, describe “Dissal behaviors” of today president in which women and financiers of their campaign were supposedly, and a video that would compromise their public image is mentioned.
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Vicky Dávila, presidency aspiring.
“There are no friends, only one that does not contain images, but edited words. There are no transvestites, nor ‘everything else'”, The president said in his X account referring to one of the phrases of the alleged chats.
The president described the episode as “A gross and horrifying attempt to confuse a party with crime” And he denounced that he tries to hide “The truth about the most serious crimes committed against humanity in Colombia”.
In his extensive message, the head of state lashed out against what he called a “New vagabond journalism” And he suggested that the controversy is driven by sectors that seek “Fill with patterns” The media and institutions.
The president’s response also seems indirectly to former President Álvaro Urib “The landowner” whose residence “It has become jail”.
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Nicolás Petro and Gustavo Petro
“The reality of seeing the hacienda converted into jail has led so many people to mental drunkenness,” the president wrote. For his part, Nicolás Petro also published a video in which he describes as “vil assembly” The images shared by Dávila.
According to him, the disseminated conversations do not coincide with the format generated by the forensic extraction made by the Prosecutor’s Office at the telephone of their ex -wife, and present “alterations of dates and names”.
“The green color of the name in the images indicates that the capture would have been made from my cell phone, which is false, because the device extracted was that of Daysuris”Said Nicolás Petro, who added that they did not even have each other stored in WhatsApp with the names that appear in the alleged catches.
Vicky Dávila, 52, made a journalist on radio and television and led the magazine Semana until 2023, when he resigned to launch into politics.
In June, he registered with the National Registry of his signature collection committee to aspire to the presidency in 2026 as an independent right -wing candidate.
EFE
