In addition, the former mayor of Bucaramanga mentions a premise that was used, in the first instance, by the now president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele
The candidate for the presidency of Colombia, Rodolfo Hernández, would have taken his campaign motto ‘Do not steal, do not lie, do not betray’ of the current Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador’ PHOTOS: File
‘Do not steal, do not lie, do not betray’ became one of the most replicated phrases in recent weeks in the country, all because of the fury that generated by the candidate of the League of Anticorruption Governors, Rodolfo Hernández, at the end of the campaign prior to the first round and now, in the days prior to the second.
His campaign slogan has awakened the feelings of many Colombians identified with this idea that, apparently, would have been created by the former mayor of Bucaramanga; however, this would be another case of plagiarism in the middle of the campaign towards the Casa de Nariño.
His first premise -Do not steal- would not have been fulfilled, since this motto was the same as used by the current president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obradorwhen he was also on campaign. In fact, in his presentations in the public square, AMLO used the same words to attract the voting public, also adding a speech focused on the fight against corruption, something that Hernández replicated in Colombia.
Since 2008, the now president of Mexico used these ‘mandates’ and it was not until 2018 – the year of his inauguration as president – that he allowed them to be used. Now, those words have passed into the mouth of the engineer, who has also told his followers and new voters that “I am not going to fail them.”
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More cases of plagiarism made by the engineer?
But this is not the first sentence that the man born in Piedecuesta -Santander- would have plagiarized from other figures in international politics. Others widely used by him are “Where no one steals, money is enough”, and although it can penetrate various social sectors, the truth is that the now president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, used to say the same thing. In some speeches he even takes the opportunity to repeat this premise.
Another similar fact, and at the same time controversial, has to do with his current government program, which he titled “ A new social contract with Colombia: the road to real peace”, and which is similar to the District Development Plan of Mayor Claudia López, “A new social and environmental contract for the 21st century”.
Another controversy that has the candidate as the protagonist is centered on most of his proposals, many of them similar to those of his electoral rival, Gustavo Petro. This has been stated on several occasions by the candidate for the Historical Pact after Hernández published, on May 30, a thread on Twitter with 20 of his proposals in case of reaching the presidency.
Topics like the respect for social protest, the legalization of the use of marijuana for recreational purposes, and the support for the decision of the Constitutional Court regarding the decriminalization of abortion until the 24th week, called the attention of the leftist, since they are similar to what he proposes in his government program.
“It seems to me that this programmatic intention of approaching our program could be the prelude to a great national agreement and I would like from here, whatever the electoral result is on June 19, I would propose to the opponent Rodolfo that we make a great national agreement”, Petro said in dialogue with the Blu Radio station this Wednesday.
For now, Hernández sticks to his idea of not attending debates until the second round, and while that day arrives, he takes advantage of his spaces on social networks to repeat the recycled slogans “No steal, don’t lie, don’t betray” and “Where no one steals, silver reaches.”