On Tuesday, eight members of a permanent commission in the Senate supported the project archive, which had been entered by the Executive at the beginning of 2023 and in October 2024 he had the approval of the camera, which modified several of his initial items. The Senate did not arrive after the file.
Under this context, In the debate, from the week, Katherine Miranda, representative to the Chamber for the Green Alliance Party; Martha Peralta, senator of the historical pact; Juan Daniel Oviedo, councilor of Bogotá and Daniel Palacios, former Minister of the Interior. And there was a strong cross between Peralta and Palacios.
“When Congress votes against, then Congress is a game of paracos, slaves, oligarchs and that is what it does. And if the Constitutional Court has the boldness of, in law, to knock the pension reform, then they will also protest. So I ask a question. Do the President choose to respect and protect the Constitution or to do what he wants? It is that I believe that here we have confused the popular mandate of choosing a president, who is the same popular mandate that a senator has, because as far as I know many of those eight senators of the commission, which I also have to give them recognition, here to say brave that they are, they also chose them for that, senator, ”said Palacios.
“The question is what you fear. Senator and you renounce if you defeat it in the consultation. Do you give up? You say there is a popular mandate, If the popular mandate defeat you renounces? ”Palacios told Peralta, who accompanied Petro in his televised speech.
Peralta replied: “I know that you bother you to see me here. ”
Palacios insisted: “Let’s put the meat on the grill.”
“Because here what they did to us last time when Juan Manuel Santos lost his plebiscite and did not even have the dignity to resign, was to end up imposing later. So, here if the president is playing it all, that he plays seriously, that he plays it seriously, to say that if the country defeats him and that if the country clearly comes out not to support those initiatives, which I believe will also end up being a consultation to this government and the nefarious path for the one that has taken us, then the question is, Petro will resign?
“Is Petro to accept that defeat? That we are not going out like Juan Manuel Santos, who played everything with a plebiscite, that we told him no and then came out to impose on the back door, ”he added.
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“Here it is not really measuring who wins and who loses, because here those who are involved are the workers of our country, they are their rights. There has been a wrong analysis that if there were a popular consultation scenario, the Petristas would only vote and notice not. Because here the rights that are under discussion are not only from the petrists, they are from the workers and workers of our country. So, I think the stage can be there, that will decide is the town, ”said Peralta.
“If they really want a labor reform, they want a health reform, they have to assume with all freedom, citizenships should freely decide whether or not. Because I also told the President, how are you killing yourself here, getting worried, wanting these benefits to really arrive and the people say no. So, that is why it must be the manifestation and popular will, ”he added. “Now we don’t have to be afraid of the will of the people. They are the ones who choose us. They are the ones that are above the same congress. ” The controversy persists.
