“What is required is that the Supreme Court makes the election next 8th of February, I believe that we are going to enter a period of tranquility, of strengthening of the institutions where “we all want to walk to”, the public servant declared to Blu Radio.

“It would be critical if the Supreme Court does not elect a prosecutor on Thursday; it would be very dangerous”, she emphasized.

Last January 25, the Full Chamber of the Supreme Court met to settle the matter, but none of the proposals of the shortlist appointed by President Gustavo Petro (Ángela María Buitrago, Luz Adriana Camargo and Amelia Pérez) reached the 16 votes required to replace the current prosecutor Francisco Barbosa, whose departure is expected to take place on February 13.

On the contrary, she warned about the risk that, if Barbosa’s replacement is not elected, the current deputy prosecutor Martha Mancera, will take over.

Mancera is accused of having covered up for a director of the Technical Investigation Corps (a directorate of the Attorney General’s Office) accused of drug trafficking.

The senator also supported the warnings made by Petro last Friday that the country is suffering from an institutional rupture due to the persecution of the president and his cabinet by the Attorney General’s Office.

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