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Colombian President questions legitimacy of election results

Bogota, Jun 24 (Prensa Latina) Colombian President Gustavo Petro believes the country's elections should be declared null and void "due to foreign interference, according to the constitution and international law, with the public and express confession of the President of the United States."

In a lengthy message posted on his X profile, the president asserted that “the mixed foreign funds in dollars, with contributions from Colombian genocidal figures and narco-terrorists” intended to destroy him, his family, and candidate Ivan Cepeda, constitute proven foreign interference.

On the software used in the elections he said:

“This is the conclusive proof because the software that defends against an external attack is itself controlled by the President of the United States, who publicly endorsed a US citizen candidate for the Colombian presidency,” he explained.

According to him, Donald Trump only managed to deceive with algorithms “heavily funded by narco-terrorists, who were allies of his candidate, who grew up and learned among them.”

Elsewhere in his statement, he asserted that a foreign leader, with all the power of missiles and money, has admitted that, thanks to him, the American citizen Abelardo de la Espriella is president, “who, in his oath to receive American citizenship, kissed the flag and swore allegiance to the United States above all other nations on earth, including Colombia.”

Petro also questioned the decisions made by the judicial authorities of his own country.

The election judges decided that, of the 55,000 complaints, more than 90 percent would remain, as they say in Congress, as official records or cases for other jurisdictions, such as criminal proceedings,” he noted.

He stated that, with the situation described, we are “de facto entering not a progressive constitutional reform but the dismantling of the fundamental principle of the Constitution: Sovereignty, to which the word ‘popular’ was added.”

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