In his speech, Petro tried to clarify his controversial idea, stating: “When a people places itself in the mood to decide on a government or on the institutions of the State, it places itself in something called constituent power. Constituent power has begun in Colombia, it is not an assembly, constituent power is a mood of the population, when a people decides to govern.”
“It is not as the journalists say, the assembly, that is something else, they have confused it. Lack of reading”, stated the president, referring to the media.
As evidence of “constituent power,” Petro assured:
“In Colombia, aware of that constitution, the people and the constituent power had already been presenting themselves for some time, but fundamentally in the great social outbreak, which another Colombian people showed, which exposed the Colombian oligarchy in its bloodthirsty capacity, which did not He was capable of dialogue, but of killing. And that continued with the electoral victory, for the first time in the history of Colombia, of a government that was not only progressive, but also belonging to the people of Colombia, who made them elected because we are not elected by magic or money, as is said. others choose, but not by your decision, that is why you are a constituent power.”
In the same presidential event with the indigenous peoples, Petro proposed to the Governor of this department to create a regional agreement table with social organizations that are representative, to determine priorities for the use of the national budget that is allocated to Nariño.
The President also He instructed the director of the National Planning Department, Alexander López, to hire a forensic audit, “whatever it is worth, for the OCAD National Peace and the General Royalties System.” He asked that an exhaustive oversight be carried out to guarantee that “in this government not a single peso of the OCAD Paz or the General Royalties System is lost.”
