Procuraduría disqualifies Juan Carlos Upegui for 8 years

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After the former candidate for the mayor of Medellín, Juan Carlos Upegui, was dismissed by the Council of State and disqualified for eight years by the Attorney General’s Office, President Gustavo Petro reacted by calling the decision a political persecution. “This is called political persecution. No one can lose political rights in Colombia by administrative decision and less by being the son of a teacher who was temporarily rector,” the presid…

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Juan Carlos Upegui , former candidate to the mayor of Medellín. Image: taken from @JuanCaUpeguiV The former councilman of Medellín and former candidate to the mayor's office, Juan Carlos Upegui, was punished with an inability of eight years to hold public office. The decision married reactions from his allies, former mayor Daniel Quintero and the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, who described the measure as an act of political persecution. …

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The Public Prosecutor's Office generated the inability of the former official of Daniel Quintero Calle due to a link with his father's public office

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The former mayor of Medellín by the movement of former mayor Daniel Quintero, Juan Carlos Upegui, said that the Attorney General’s Office had notified him today that he had been disqualified from holding a public office for eight years. “Uribismo uses this entity as a political weapon to eliminate his adversaries. We will appeal the decision and continue to fight to recover political rights,” said Upegui, who had to leave his curul this year in …