The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, has affirmed this Thursday that he has not asked his children to commit crimes, and that he will use the case of his son Nicolás Petro, charged with alleged crimes of money laundering and illicit enrichment, to try to overthrow the “first People's government of the country” will not do.

“You have the absolute certainty that this government ends according to the popular mandate, no one else's, and that is good that it is clear in Colombia, there is no one who can end this government, let it be the people themselves, and the people gave an order by majority at the ballot box,” Petro assured during a speech at the Popular Campesino Assembly for the reactivation of the National System of Agrarian Reform and Rural Development.

“I have never told any of my sons or my daughters that they commit crimes, that has not existed. It is not the first time that they have tried to use the family scars, some will heal, others perhaps never, of course they have tried to use all the weaknesses to open the way for the collapse of the first popular government in Colombia,” added the president.

For his part, the former commander of the extinct Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and president of the Comunes Party, a political branch of the guerrilla, Rodrigo Londoño, alias 'Timochenko', has expressed his support for Petro.

“I trust the transparency and rectitude of the president. The country knows him for his strong convictions in favor of peace, justice and the well-being of the popular sectors. Time will clear the mist raised by the individual actions of his young son,” the former guerrilla fighter wrote on his account on the X social network, formerly Twitter.

These statements have come shortly after Nicolás Petro has admitted to the Prosecutor's Office having illegally financed his father's presidential campaign, a case for which he has been charged for alleged crimes of money laundering and illicit enrichment for alleged illegal financing.

In fact, it has promised to deliver documentation, audios and other types of evidence as a gesture of collaboration with the country's Justice.