In the last legislative elections, the country met all kinds of candidates, some of them quite peculiar. That was the case of the Senate candidate for the Democratic Center, Alicia Franco, an 87-year-old grandmother who ran seeking to preserve the legacy of former President Álvaro Uribe.
Although Franco was ‘burnt’, this octogenarian born in the municipality of Guadalupe (Santander), a population with less than 7,000 inhabitants, has become famous for its controversial publications on social networks, that even petrists take with a good sense of humor.
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The new pearl of the so-called ‘Grandma Uribista’ occurred in this new week, and it was due to the tax reform that the Petro Government will present, to which it has already announced a strong opposition: “NO to Gustavo Petro’s tax reform. Count on me to take to the streets.”
through a video, Franco questioned the fact that Petro’s followers wanted to “set the country on fire for Iván Duque’s Tax Reform, but now keep silent.
“Today Colombia fell into the clutches of Communism. Gustavo Petro set the country on fire for a Tax Reform by President Iván Duque and now he comes with a Tax Reform 3 times higher (…) What is this deception, what is this that is happening,” he wrote.
then the video of Franco outraged with Petro’s Tax Reform.