Secondly, In June, Andrés Pastrana sent a harsh message to the members of the Conservative Party who were supporting the Petro Government.
“As long as the incoming president does not guarantee ‘red lines’ in the face of offers such as criminality, he will be facing the country that rejects shady pacts and tricky language, designed to deliver Colombia to those dark forces,” he said.
In addition, he stated that “drug trafficking and public procurement cartels cannot be covered by an umbrella of forgiveness and a presidential pardon in accordance with the political class that today convenes around the next executive for a dark end”.