The Twenty-Fourth Administrative Court of the Judicial Circuit of Bogotá has formally processed an incident of contempt filed against President Petro.

The action, filed on December 1, 2025 by Jaime Miguel González Montaño, former manager of Coosalud, denounces the alleged failure to comply with a court order that required the president to publicly retract.

The controversy originates in a ruling by the Administrative Court of Cundinamarca on November 11, which protected the fundamental rights to honor, good name, due process and the presumption of innocence of González Montaño.

As part of the ruling, the Court ordered President Petro to retract and publicly apologize for statements made on a social network in November 2025.

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The court order specified that the President must make the retraction within a period of five days and in the same format in which the original statements were disseminated, that is, through social network X and a presidential address, as the case may be. In addition, he was ordered to refrain from issuing any future public statements that violated the plaintiff’s rights.

The Court concluded that President Petro has not complied with the mandate. Therefore, before imposing sanctions for contempt, the judicial authority has formally requested the president to detail the actions carried out in compliance with the sentence.

The incident is based on statements released by the president on November 6, 2024 through the social network X, in which he made reference to alleged irregularities in the EPS Cooraind.

This is not the first case in which justice requests the head of state to rectify or apologize for his public messages, highlighting a recurring problem between presidential statements and the protection of the good name of citizens.

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