The Mayor of Bogotá, Claudia Lópezclarified his intentions and if he would resign from the mayor’s office to go to the 2022 presidential elections.
In an interview with Yamid Amat, director of the Newscast 1 CM&the first president of the Colombians spoke, among other topics, of her supposed presidential aspiration.
And it is that in social networks there has been speculation about an alleged intention of the leader to aspire to the position in the 2022 elections, replacing the current president, Iván Duque.
This was said by the mayor of Bogotá, Claudia López, in said interview
“The mayors are prohibited, fortunately by the Constitution, from leaving the position thrown away to launch ourselves to another position. I am fortunate (…) to be the first woman elected to the Mayor’s Office of Bogotá; I would not let this position drop under any circumstances.”
“Those who are in the presidential campaign are the ones who invent that gossip (…). Those who are in the presidential campaign for 2022, which is clearly not me, are the ones who are trying to incite, divide and polarize our society.
Claudia replied
Let us remember that Antanas Mockus resigned as mayor of the capital in 1997 to run for the presidency in 1998. As explained by Claudia López, after this event the Constitution was reformed so that nothing similar would happen again.
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