The Colombian president, Gustavo Petrosaid this Friday that his youngest daughter, Antonella Petro will leave the country because “has suffered psychological persecution”. “I have to live these two days in the midst of my mourning because my last daughter is leaving (…) I failed to perform public acts, but I did not have the strength to stand before an audience and speak when my heart was crying. My daughter has suffered psychological persecution,” said the head of state.
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Petro explained that for that reason He did not attend the XXVII Meeting of the Ordinary Jurisdiction on Thursday held in Quibdó (Chocó). The same occurred with other government events scheduled for that day. In his speech, Petro He talked about fascism and how this phenomenon has affected his family.
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“My daughter Antonella, learning ideas from her father and from her school, without me indicating a precise path because I wanted her to choose it, was reading there among the networks, hearing in the corners of her school, from her classmates, that her parents taught them those kinds of ideas, she was feeling the permanent and daily persecution”said the ruler.
He stressed that his daughter, under-age, “He was more or less suffering the consequences of this growing fascism in Colombian society, in its wealthy classes, in its upper middle classes, who cannot understand why the priority of a State has to be to reach out and embrace the people, the humble.”
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Petro did not say which country Antonella will go toThe other two daughters, Andrea and Sofia, have been living in France for years. What happened with Antonella It’s not the first episode. In November last year, during the 2026 World Cup qualifying match between Colombia and Brazil, the girl left the Metropolitan Stadium in Barranquilla crying. On that occasion, a group of people shouted ‘Petro out’ to the box where Antonella and other family members and friends of the president were.
EFE
