Sergio Fajardo responds to President Gustavo Petro after the president declared him "disappeared": "I don't play with other people's pain."

Former Medellín mayor Sergio Fajardo decided to respond to President Gustavo Petro after the president told him: "In a country so full of missing people, stop disappearing."

In response to these words from the head of state, Fajardo noted that Petro was very concerned about him and clarified that he would not participate in what he described as a mockery: "I will not enter into the 'joke' about the disappeared. I do not play with other people's pain."

The former mayor later added, "Last week, he mocked women and Black people. Today, he mocked victims," referring to the day the president referred to two officials by saying, "No one who is Black is going to tell me that a porn actor should be excluded."

"President, governing is no joke and you have no talent for it," were the words with which Fajardo closed the tweet he published from his official account on X.

President Petro's response came after Fajardo made statements to Blu Radio , where he said that to "transform Colombia" it was necessary to "change the way politics is conducted."

Fajardo maintained that there are people who "disdain the form and say, 'The important thing is the reforms,'" to which he replied: "I believe in the saying that it is the means that justify the end, and life shows us what that means."

During his speech, the former mayor cited the current government as an example : "Under President Gustavo Petro's administration, anything goes. Gustavo Bolívar put it as succinctly as possible: 'We sold our souls to the devil in order to win whatever it took.'"

"Today we are governed by President Petro, Mr. Benedetti, and Pastor Saade," can be heard in the excerpt cited by the aforementioned media outlet.

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