The Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, revealed that he himself, on May 1, will present to the Congress of the Republic the text with the 12 questions of the controversial popular consultation.
For that date, the head of state convened several marches throughout the country to accompany the government on the popular consultation, which will focus on the labor reform that sank in Congress.
However, this Friday, April 25, President Petro, through his favorite tribune, his personal account of X, before Twitter, He launched a sharp Sablazo to the Communications Regulation commission (CRC), warning that he is censoring his government.
In the message, the president assured that the commission has prevented the march from defending the popular consultation.
“We are facing a new act of censorship made by the television regulation commission. He never took his face to prevent slander from the president, never to prevent silence about the authors of the massacre and genocide,” said Petro.
And he added in the message he published on that digital platform: “Hey well! The television regulation commission has just censored us so that we do not summon the people to the March of May 1 to defend the consultation”.
“What a scare because the people woke up! Hear well, the Regulation Commission does not let, in government spaces, summon the people to the March of May to defend the consultation,” said the head of state.
In addition to this, he said: “Well, let’s call us using any means of communication, to the chains written under the door, so that we are ten million in the streets this May first.”
“They do pure censorship and undress power and tell us that for centuries they changed the word democracy for dictatorship, because what the law says is not that the consultation, on May first, or that the people press the consultation, are prohibited and that it is prevented from saying it on television,” Petro added.
He also detailed in El Trino: “What prohibits the law is that after approving the consultation, the government cannot campaign for the yes, that is different. Today is censorship of Duke’s friends, which are the majority of the television commission “.
