In, from several congressmen responded to the president’s attack, Gustavo Petro. And without even the Senate has spoken about the popular consultation, the president already told them everything, he insulted them, while waiting for them to approve it. At insults expect senators to tell him yes.
On May 1, 2025, President Petro said: “When it is the time that the people Marche in the sunlight, 12 questions are presented. They will read them here, later. They have been published, the first I want to read. Labor Minister (Antonio Sanguino), if they have it out there.”
He then began to read them: “The first question says: Does it agree that the working day lasts maximum eight hours and the daytime is between 6:00 am and 6:00 pm? Two. Does it agree with a 100 % surcharge to be paid – that is, the salary is doubled – for work, the days of Sunday or holidays? Three. Receive interest rates in credit and supplies and incentives for their productive projects?
“Do you agree that the apprentices of SENA and similar institutions have a labor learning contract? Does it agree that working people on distribution and transport platforms agree their type of contract and guarantee the payment of social security? Does it agree with establishing a special labor regime so that field entrepreneurs guarantee labor rights and just salary to agricultural workers? Do you agree to eliminate outsourcing. union?
Immediately he finished reading the questions, the president threw the insult to the congressmen: “I have to say, frankly, that the one who vote does not or does not want these reforms is because it is a slave HP. I have not said any rudeness. HP eye -parliamentary parliamentary, journalist or politic World workers had conquered the day of 8 hours a day.
Previously, HP also told Efraín Cepeda, president of the Senate. And after insulting it, and generating a political storm, it reaffirmed. In the midst of a ignition speech during the installation of the citizen committees of the popular consultation for the yes, President Gustavo Petro lasted hard against the President of the Senate, Efraín Cepeda, whom he described as “much HP” In response to congressman’s comments about the questions raised for the popular consultation promoted by the Government.
The president, visibly annoying, criticized Cepeda’s position against the citizen initiative, after The senator would question the formulation of the questions that would be taken to Congress. “Efraín Cepeda said, then: hear, but those are the questions you presented, then Now we can discuss them in Congress”Petro quoted during his speech.
Then, the president said: “I do not say rudeness, but I meant one: Much HP”Subsequently, el agent, far from retracting for your commenthe used his official X account to defend his words and question what he considers a false morals in his critics.
“Dignity is not hypocrisy, but frankness. The Caribbean are not hypocrites, ”Petro wrote, responding directly to Senator Cepeda.“ Above all things, who must be respected in a democracy is the people. And walks there a lot HP that disrespects the people. ”
This was the debate, complete:
These were the statements of Senator Carlos Manuel Meisel:
With the sword of the liberator Simón Bolívar in his hand, Colombian president Gustavo Petro defended that May 1st reforms in a march to press Congress, which must decide if he approves a popular consultation proposed by the Government.
On the occasion of International Workers Day, people related to their government attended the call of the president to protest against the legislative. Petro said that it is an “institutional blockade” against the first leftist government in the history of Colombia, so it promotes a popular consultation for citizens to vote for or against reforms.
In the heart of the capital, the president took the sword of the liberator Simón Bolívar from a glass urn and for the first time since his arrival to power he raised it with his hands covered with latex gloves. “Bolivar’s sword commands us and guides us in this fight for freedom,” he said.
The Congress must approve 12 questions presented by the Government to be included in the popular consultation. Petro recently warned parliamentarians who do not give them the approval, will approve them by decree.
If the Senate does not support them with 53 of their 105 votes, there will be no electoral process.
The second filter will be citizen participation. To be valid, at least one third of the electoral roll, that is 13.6 million peoplethey must participate in the vote, above the 11.2 million who voted for Petro in 2022.
The opposition maintains that the president actually tries to win voters for the left with a view to the presidential 2026, in which he will not be able to seek re -election by law.
