A group of nine congressmen will denounce the President of the Republic, Gustavo Petro, for using “threatening tone” against the legislative during the mobilizations of May 1, when, in addition to commemorating the International Workers Day, the president resulted in the project for the popular consultation with which he seeks to endorse much of the labor reform that filed him in commission VII of the Senate, in mid -March.
Will be the outstanding jurist Wilson Ruiz, minister of Justice during the government of former President Iván Duque, who assumed the legal representation of parliamentarians who have decided to initiate the legal process against the Head of state, according to the regional newspaper The country.
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Ruiz, accompanied by the lawyer Manuel Villanuevawill lead the judicial action on behalf of the congressmen belonging to the Legal Commission of Investigation and Accusation, they detailed in the Vallecaucano newspaper.
The complainant congressmen are Esperanza Andrade Serrano, Bedoya Pérez Berenice, Beatriz Lorena Ruiz Cuéllar, Honorio Miguel Henríquez Pinedo, Josué Alirio Barrera, Miguel Ángel Pinto Hernández, Nadya Biel Scaff, Norma Hurtado Sánchez y Ana Paola Agudelo Garcíathey indicated in the magazine Semana.
Ruiz explained that the president’s speech included references that congressmen consider threatening such as “He waved the war flag to death, a Bolivarian symbol that justifies atrocities in the name of victory,” And he warned that, if the Senate does not approve the popular consultation, “the people revokes it,” he said in some sections of an interview he granted at the station Caracol Radio.
Ruiz added that the president attacked and insulted several legislators, which, according to him, puts his personal safety at risk. For this reason, the affected congressmen have decided to file the complaint with the Accusations Commission of the House of Representatives and also before the Inter -American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
The former minister emphasized that they will not limit themselves to expressing their indignation, but will take the case to the last legal instances.
“The attacks on congressmen are unacceptable. I am willing to go to the last consequences to defend our democracy and our social state of law. If the president does not respond to the reason, a judge will do it, ”said Ruiz, according to Caracol Radio.
Petrogenerated controversy with his statements in the Plaza de Bolívar to request support from the popular consultation that seeks to implement the Labor reformpreviously rejected in the seventh commission of the Senate. During his speech, Petro said that congressmen who do not support this initiative will not be elected again, which unleashed criticism from various political sectors.
The president’s speech included blunt terms against those who oppose the popular consultation, who described as “HP slaves”. In addition, he warned that the Colombian people could mobilize to revoke legislators who vote against the proposal.
Petro declared: “People of Colombia without pension. If they believe that is enough for them, and then in a session of the Senate, at midnight, they will vote to say ‘no’ to the consultation, the people of Colombia get up and revoke it”.
These statements generated immediate answers. Congressmen From different political parties criticized the tone and content of the speech, accusing the president of acting in an authoritarian way and of prioritizing personal interests on citizen needs.
Senator Nadia Blel, of the Conservative Party, expressed in an interview her discontent, noting that she expected a speech that united the country, but found a divisive message: “Yesterday, when we waited for a president to unite with his speech, a president who built and did not destroy … we saw the opposite”he said.
