‘It is its historical role’: Petro recognizes the role of Congress in calling a constituent

He President Gustavo Petroafter several of his predecessors in the House of Nariño expressed their position against the possible convocation of a national constituent assembly through the 2016 peace agreementsmade an extensive publication on the social network X, in which he defended this initiative, also recognizing that the Congress of the Republic has in its hands the responsibility of calling an assembly.

It is worth mentioning that Sergio Jaramillo, who wrote the introduction of the document of the agreements with the extinct FARC guerrillaassured in statements for the station ‘W Radio’ that the commitments agreed upon and recorded there must be fulfilled.

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In his trill, the head of state maintains that Jaramillo’s statements are “a deception“and as proof of this, as he claims, This is what happened when the agreement passed through the legislative branch.

“When the ‘fast track’ mechanism was used in Congress, the key reforms agreed upon in the agreement were not presented: 1. Agrarian reform. 2. The transformation of the territory and 3. Judicial truth“, he pointed.

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In addition, He compared what is currently happening with what happened in the 1990s, during the peace process with the M-19 guerrilla.to insist on his idea of ​​calling a constituent assembly.

“The same thing happened as with the M-19 agreement, which I experienced: the constitution of ’91 was not applied, nor was the social state of law built; In the FARC, where I now live as ruler, the reforms he needed were not presented.”he added.

Last Sunday, the former president Juan Manuel Santos He assured that using the agreements with the FARC to call for a constituent was “an absurd“and that, precisely, that had been one of the red lines that the National Government negotiators maintained in the dialogues in Havana.

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Santos also assured that “The Constituent Assembly can only be convened using the procedures established by the Constitution, any attempt to do so by other means would confront the legislative and judicial powers, the Armed Forces and the vast majority of Colombians.“.

Faced with these words, the current head of state responded that “the historical role of Congress“It is to process whether the call is called or, otherwise, “the constituent power will do it sooner or later“.

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“​It will be said that Congress today can assume its historical ‘role’. The political discussion is open. In my opinion, it is up to the constituent power of the people to do so; It is also under discussion what the means to do so can be: a constituent assembly is only one means of several to express constituent power.“Petro stated.

Later he mentioned that The first point of the agreement between the Government and the ELN, signed last Saturday, generated doubts and questions from various sectors. The president maintains that both this commitment and the peace agreement itself are “national political agreement“which should lead to an end to violence in the country.

“Even the attack by Jaramillo and Santos against our proposal, which is combined with that of Uribe, is a way of talking about peace. Although my proposals move the waters and sometimes produce storms in a ‘status quo’ that dies in the inertia of the privileges, exclusions and inequalities of the majority of its society, we have managed to get this government to make people speak. the Colombian Society of Peace and Democracy. The word has power. word yes“concluded the President of the Republic.

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The last person to join the criticism of the current head of state’s proposal was the former president Ernesto Samperwho said this Monday that “In light of these current norms, it is not possible to legitimize the convening of a Constituent Assembly in the Havana Peace Agreement signed between the State and the FARC: it would be a de facto Constituent Assembly, a leap into the void of institutionality that would begin by ignoring Congress and the Constitutional Court”.

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*With information from EL TIEMPO – POLITICS