Mayor of Bucaramanga could be removed from office for assaulting councilor

After the publication of a video in which Rodolfo Hernández, Mayor of Bucaramanga, badaulted and insulted Councilor Jhon Jairo Claro during a conversation that took place in Hernandez's office, the president could to be reminded.

For Gerardo Martinez, former resident of Bucaramanga, the aggression is a matter of "extreme gravity", which exposes the president of the local to a suspension, or even the dismissal of his post.

"The Attorney General has the faculty to badess the gravity of the facts.It is in the event of a very serious fault since the mayor physically attacks an official who, moreover, is the one who exercises the political control, for which the mayor is certainly exposed to deprivation and incapacity of 10 years ", said Gerardo Martinez.

In case of dismissal, the governor Didier Tavera will be the one who will designate the replacement of Rodolfo Hernández, a little more than a year after the end of his term in Bucaramanga mayoralty.

In these circumstances, Tavera should choose between a short list sent to him by Reinaldo Ramírez, Jorge Rodríguez and Laurentina Ariza, who have registered Hernández Suárez as Logic, Ethics and Aesthetics.

In video: the blow carried by the mayor of Bucaramanga to the councilor Jhon Jairo Claro

The reactions

Puebla Democratic Party Senator Leontan Gomez, who accompanied Hernandez Suarez's candidacy to the mayor, asked the president and councilman to apologize to the city.

"It's an unfortunate fact, beyond who provoked who, here's what there are two officials with an investiture who had to act differently and for which they have to apologize to the city for what is arrived, "said the congressman.

This text tried to contact the chief of the mayor's office, Manolo Azuero, to find out an official position of the municipal administration, but communication was not possible.

Discord

The rivalry between Councilor Jhon Claro, who was part of the minority council caucus that supports the municipal administration, and Mayor Rodolfo Hernández occurred at the meeting on November 20, when the Treasury Secretary Olga Chacón, who has given the go-ahead to the motion of censure that is pushing the majority coalition against him, has challenged several councilors, including lobbyist Claro.

Within the resource, Olga Chacón challenges the councilors who approved in 2015, apparently irregularly, the restructuring of the municipal controller. Among the advisers who signed the restructuring is Jhon Claro.

This challenge was not welcomed by the lobbyist of the ASI, who, at the close of the plenary session, not only questioned the performance of the Ministry of Finance, but also became one of the promoters of the motion of censure addressed to the official.

The change of position of the councilor Claro led the mayor Rodolfo Hernandez, in his "Talk to the Mayor" on Facebook Live, against the lobbyist who questioned his independence and his political interests.

After the transmission of the local president, Jhon Claro requested an interview with Mayor Hernández, who ended Wednesday with an embarrbading act of aggression at the municipal office.