The start of the binding regional dialogues that take place this Thursday morning in Plaza Mayor was marked by a sit-in of several citizens who shouted harangues against Mayor Daniel Quintero. The demonstration, for which they carried banners and flags from Antioquia and Colombia, It began almost half an hour after the doors of the place were opened to the participants of the meeting.
Behind some fences, the protesters organized themselves, who also shouted harangues and profanities at the citizens who were about to enter the event and even at some they were heard demonstrating against President Gustavo Petro, although the focus was on the president of the capital of Antioquia. They also threw paint that fell on some people who were in the place, as was known in some images.
However, the protesters also found someone to answer them: Mayor Quintero was seen arriving at the event with a megaphonesurrounded by people from the Mayor’s Office, the Personería and other citizens. He led, at full shout and dying of laughter, the harangue: “No more Uribe.”
Likewise, Quintero was also surrounded by people who shouted in his favor phrases such as “Quintero, friend, the people are with you” or “We love you, mayor.”
Inside, before those attending the binding regional dialogues, Quintero said that the demonstrators were going to block him from entering that space, that they were armed with sticks and objects to throw, but a journalistic team from this medium that is in the place was able to verify that these situations did not occur against the president, although they confirmed that there were insults to ordinary citizens before they Quintero will arrive.
In fact, in videos that were known it is seen that Quintero, who is escorted and with people who accompanied him, he was the one who stopped in front of the protesters and with the megaphone shouted at them, in chorus with his companions: “That is the past.”
This is the second consecutive day of protest that the mayor has to deal with. the previous wednesday the city’s Family commissioners stood up to him in La Alpujarra to protest against the precarious conditions in which they say they are working and to ask for attention and investment from the Medellin Mayor’s Office because they no longer have a way to handle cases of domestic violence and sexual abuse of children and adolescents, which they say have increased.