President Gustavo Petro at the UN General Assembly.
Photo: Presidency
This Thursday, through his social networks, President Gustavo Petro denied that he was going to request the United Nations Security Council’s endorsement for a constituent assembly in Colombia. In his message, the president emphasized that the constituent power belongs exclusively to the Colombian people.
“Stop telling lies. I am not going to ask the Security Council to endorse a Colombian constituent. The constituent power belongs exclusively to the Colombian people, to no one else,” Petro expressed in his X account.
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This statement occurs in the midst of the debate on the possibility of the current government presenting complaints to the UN about the non-compliance with the Peace Agreement that the Santos government signed with the extinct FARC guerrilla, which, according to former Foreign Minister Álvaro Leyva , would open the door to convene a constituent assembly.
In dialogue with El Espectador, Santos, who sent a letter to Secretary General António Guterres, assured that: “The United Nations, what it is possibly going to say to President Petro, is that it receives him with great kindness and diplomacy, but that ‘ “Do not bring Colombia’s internal problems here to the Security Council.”
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The former president also emphasized that the implementation of the peace process requires nothing more than political will, reaffirming that any new negotiation must respect Colombian constitutional parameters. “This theory that Security Council resolutions are above our Constitution is a sophistry, that has no real basis,” he added.
This Thursday, President Petro also said: “Go back to your school studies: popular sovereignty is the basis of the sovereignty of the nation.”
