Colombia.A judge lifts the house arrest order against former president Álvaro Uribe
He is not retiring from politics.
He will continue to fight not only to prove his innocence, but to prevent socialism from winning the next presidential elections in Colombia.
"Be careful with 22!", Was the phrase with which Álvaro Uribe finished his first statement after the judge lifted the house arrest imposed by the Supreme Court last August.
From the El Ubérrimo cattle farm, his second home, in the department of Córdoba, the former president and former senator unearthed the hatchet in a 12-minute speech.
He criticized the criminal process for procedural manipulation and bribery of witnesses and took the opportunity to announce, with an obvious electoral intention,
a referendum with the purpose of reforming the peace process that Juan Manuel Santos signed with the FARC in 2016 and repealing the JEP (Special Justice for peace).
Regarding the case that the Attorney General's Office will now have to investigate, after resigning from the Senate and losing the jurisdiction that shelters the members of the Legislative Assembly, he
assured that it is a persecution of the investigating magistrate and the senator of the socialist Polo Democrático Iván Cepeda
, in the that the previous government intervened in order to "put him in prison."
He alleged that during the investigation of the case they have committed irregularities such as not allowing his lawyer to question "the star witness", whose family, he assured, received financial aid from an NGO financed by Cepeda.
He also rejected the telephone interceptions of his cell phone that the Supreme Court carried out for a month
.
It should be remembered that they were listening to a congressman, but the high court, due to an alleged error by the investigators, ended up hearing the former president.
He argued that in the 22,000 tapped calls there is not a single conversation in which they can prove that he was buying witnesses.
Another aspect that became clear was his intention to play hard in the political arena ahead of the 2022 elections.
"I am a survivor for God's protection. Resignation is not part of my options," he
said, referring to the failed attacks. who has suffered.
Hence, the referendum will be a kind of exit flag from the campaign to encourage "progress initiatives that are alternatives to the socialist risk that replicate the failure of Venezuela and Nicaragua."
The opposites, he invoked,
"to the confiscations of socialism, its taxes and suffocating restrictions that inhibit creativity, let us oppose with more security, more companies that offer more opportunities, more social cohesion."
Therefore, far from departing from daily politics,
Uribe will continue to be present despite the fact that in addition to the aforementioned accusation in the Attorney General's Office
, he will have to face other news from Iván Cepeda about two massacres committed by the paramilitaries and in which he would have participated when he was governor of Antioquia.
"Those who thought that being in prison meant the end of the career of the most important politician in Colombia were wrong. They underestimated the impact it has on Colombians, even though it has lost points," says
Yesid Lancheros
, political editor of the Colombian magazine Semana, to THE WORLD.
"The strategy of his party has worked, which repeats that it is not possible that Uribe has been imprisoned and Iván Márquez and other former guerrilla commanders do not spend a single day in jail. In 2022 the candidate he chooses will have relevance."
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