Controversy continues around the supposed problematic consumption of psychoactive substances suffered by the President of the Republic, Gustavo Petro, after Álvaro Leyva, who served as the first of the foreign ministers of his government, made that signal against the president in a letter that made public on the morning of Wednesday, April 23.
According to the former chancellor, he discovered that the Head of state has that condition, after an official trip they made to France.
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“I am going to say it today – certainly – but At that time I was already aware of his episodes of similar behavior. It was in Paris where I could confirm that you I had the drug addiction problem “he said without delivering more details.
On these serious and discriminatory statements, there is Alfonso Prada, the first to occupy the interior portfolio in the Petro era, which is now an ambassador to the Gallic country, and that he was a member of the cabinet, when the assumptions made to which he referred to Leyva in his letter was given.
“Neither on the first trip, nor in the second, the president takes a drink, much less consumed some kind of substance,” He argued in an interview that he granted the television news Red +.
The former minister confirmed that he accompanied him on those tours of Europe and in the meeting he held with Emmanuel Macron and insisted that Petro stuck to his commitments.
“I can attest that there was a total compliance with the scheduled agenda Officially here with different national and international authorities, ”he said.
In addition, he supported the version that the same president and his family delivered that in the days he had no pending for his functions, he was with his own.
-“On Saturday He did have a private agenda in which we were accompanying him, confirmed that he had dedicated him to his family, To the people with whom he has a story and a life here in France, ”he said.
The same said about the other visit he made, during the celebration of the Olympics in Paris.
“Also He dedicated a lot to his wife, his daughters, his sons, his grandchildren And we could always see it sharing as a family, ”he said.
Prada concluded his dialogue with Red + Indicating that with France there is a pleasant cooperation relationship, where there are no complaints about some excess such as those mentioned by the former chancellor on Petro.
Leyva He made these statements public through an extensive letter that he disseminated in his account of X. In it, he argued that the president would have been absent for a couple of days, which would support his statement.
“The occasion when you disappeared two days in Paris during an official visit. As if French intelligence were incompetent for not having known its whereabouts ”, He said in another of the departments of the explosive letter.
The president categorically denied any problem of problematic consumption or drug dependence. During that trip to ParisHe argued that at no time was he alone, since he was accompanied at all times by the French Secret Service, even when he moved away from his presidential activities and said that it was a slander of the former chancellor.
“The writer forgot to tell them that in an official visit of a head of state to France, There is always direct and permanent physical protection of the French Secret Service. I have simply been slandered [sic]”, The president published in his official X.
In addition, Andrea Petro, the president’s eldest daughter, said that the aforementioned events about the alleged “disappearance” of his father in the French capital are inaccurate. According to her, this time was used to share with relatives resident in the French capital, denialing the accusations
