Petro proposed on Friday a national assembly to reform the country’s Constitution, at a time when his main economic and social reforms face the risk of being rejected
He President of Colombia, Gustavo Petroproposed on Friday a national assembly to reform the country’s Constitution, at a time when his main economic and social reforms face the risk of being rejected in Congress.
Petro, the first left-wing president in the country’s history, a reform to the health system, one to the labor regime and another to the pension regime is being processed before the legislaturewhose processing has been slow because the president has lost political capital among the coalition that brought him to power, in August 2022.
“If the institutions that we have in Colombia today are not up to the task of the social reforms that the people, through their vote, decreed, demanded and ordered, then it is not the people, it is those who are kneeling towards their home defeated, it is the transformations of Those institutions are the ones that have to present themselves,” Petro said during a government event.
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Petro calls for a national constituent assembly
“Then Colombia has to go to a national constituent assembly,” added the president.
The current Constitution of Colombia has been in force since 1991, when it was reformed with an assembly in which the main political parties participated, including the one that emerged from the demobilized M-19 guerrilla, to which Petro belonged and which was demobilized with an agreement peace agreement signed in 1990. (Report by Nelson Bocanegra)
Source: Ambito
