President Gustavo Petro continues to advance his ‘plays’ to ensure that his social reforms, especially labor and health, have green light and become a reality. Given the refusal that Congress has shown, the Head of State announced a popular consultation and, with the aim of seeking support, he decreed on Tuesday, March 18, as Civic Day.
These decisions have unleashed a great controversy and controversy, because for many sectors it is about measuring the political pulse and starting to direct what will be the presidential elections of 2026.
Juan Manuel Galán, director of the New Liberalism, spoke in De About this issue and uncovered, according to him, the true objectives that Petro has with the civic day and the popular consultation, which will be held once the labor reform will be completely sinks.
“He is supplanting the data for the imposition and wants to get Colombians in a confrontation, In a fight, in a division, and that will not bring anything good to Colombia, ”he said.
The former senator questioned the speeches that Petro has made against the institutions, as is happening right now against the Congress of the Republic. “It is not conciliatory, or of consultation or seeking consensus, such as”, said.
“He is looking to impose the dogma on the data on the data, the ideology about evidence and that is very serious for the country, because we are not going to find a path of solutions to the needs of the people,” he added.
At the same time, according to the former congressman, the strategy that is following the president, which is not new, Its objective is to launch distractors to hide the inability and improvisation that the Government has had, Aspects that are reflected, for example, in the insecurity that is lived in many areas.
“This march is a distractor, as was the National Constituent Assembly, as was all this diplomatic crisis that we had for a trill (…). The intention is to be in permanent political campaign so that the country does not speak about what people really want ”, express.
Galán pointed out that in all this strategy, Petro has fallen into many contradictions that are evidenced in his decisions. He also said that the popular consultation will be used as a “campaign instrument to put people against democratic institutions.”
“Really The message is that the president is not on the side of the people, but is on the side of perpetuating herself in power, costs what it costs. He believes that Colombia’s revolution triumphed by other media, by other roads, ”he said.
In that sense, he said that Petro will use all the necessary tools to achieve his primary objective: “Stay in power next year.”
“The president seeks the fight, the division of Colombians, does not seek the unity of Colombians, as ordered by the Constitution that he swore.
