In the middle of the greeting event diplomatic jurisdiction resident in Colombia, he President Gustavo Petro once again defended the idea of summon a National Constituent Assembly. However, this time he opened the door for a future re-election through this figure.
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“They were re-elected, those who criticize me were re-elected, I do not want to be re-elected, nor do I believe that a constituent is the appropriate instrument yet, but I do not deny that possibility in the future, because the constituent power has to express itself, just like when the liberals and conservatives “They made peace, to be able to make peace today,” he insisted.
In that same speech, President Petro indicated that those who question their proposal It’s because they don’t want the peace nor the change and that is why they demonize the figure of the constituent.
“(…) the basis of democracy is the power of the people and to be scared by that, to say that it is from Satan, that it is demonic, is simply because they do not understand democracy. The oligarchy did not understand the democracy”, he pointed out.
Petro does not rule out re-election via constituent in the future
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