Colombian presidential candidate Gustavo Bolívarone of the leftist figures closest to the president Gustavo Petroannounced on Sunday the suspension of its political activity for the 2026 elections for the attack that on Saturday left the senator seriously injured Miguel Uribe Turbay.
“From my part and out of respect with Miguel Uribe, suspending all political activity and I ask other candidates to put an end to personal disqualification, verbal violence”Bolívar said in a letter in his X account.
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The politician considered “regrettable” he “Vil attack”He has between life and death to Uribe Turbay, 39, and presidential candidate for the right -wing party Democratic Centerand said that attack “It should serve to turn the way campaigns in Colombia are done”
“As leaders we have the responsibility of giving example in the treatment of our contradictors because in a country all expressions for odious that seem to us, if not, we cannot call us country should fit”, Said Bolívar, who appears in the voting intention surveys as the best positioned figure for the next presidential elections, which will be held on May 31, 2026.
Uribe Turbay yesterday received two bullet impacts fired by a man who was among a group of followers who listened to his speech in a political act in a Modelia parkneighborhood of the town of Fontibónin the west of the Colombian capital.
In images disseminated in social networks it looks like the hitman, who according to the Prosecutor’s Office is a child under 15 who was arrested minutes after the attack, takes out a gun and shoots in the direction of the head of the presidential applicant, who collapses after receiving a first shot.
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The senator remains admitted to the Santa Fe Foundation of Bogotáwhere last night he was subjected to a delicate surgery of approximately four hours that he exceeded but his condition remains critical, according to the mayor of Bogotá, Carlos Fernando Galán.
“It is great news that has already told us the clinic, which (Miguel Uribe) exceeded the first intervention. These are critical moments and hours to survive. You have to ask God to keep Miguel’s life and overcome this situation”Galán said this morning.
In this regard, Bolívar acknowledged that this morning looked “With fear“The news and stressed:”Fortunately Senator Uribe survived surgery and we voted for his prompt recovery”
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