President Petro coined the undemocratic and dangerous thesis that any attempt by any authority to snoop around his property is a “soft coup.” The only justice that the president accepts is that which his fans lavish on him.
When the official investigations appear in the Casa de Nariño or in the pure-blooded Petrist offices, Petro shouts to the heavens and shouts that democracy is at risk and that “the coup d’état has begun.” This is a presidential exaggeration because those who threaten to overthrow him and pierce his power are his allies that he himself appointed, especially those who became rich. The promoter of it was Petro and today she is a victim of his own invention.
Even though Olmedo López has surprisingly exonerated the president and the Government of the dirty dealings recently detected, the truth is that it is not credible that the supposed payment of $4,000 million to the presidents of Congress was a mere imprudence or a simple misunderstanding. No, something very serious happened there that should be known soon, although, as things are going, it seems that they have softened this Olmedo, judging by his flattering and tearful statements giving the Government a white flag. Let’s hope the same does not happen with Sneyder Pinilla.
Petro surprises and scares, because to protest because the CNE intends to formulate a statement of objections to him and the president of Ecopetrol for the financing of his expensive electoral campaign, he responds with flames of fire, such as that there is a constitutional rupture to which it must be responded “with the strength of the people.” Bogotazo?
The Government cannot affirm that the Supreme Court, the Constitutional Court, the Prosecutor’s Office, the Attorney General’s Office and the CNE are riding the roller coaster of conspiracy. It is not possible, for example, to prevent the campaign accounts from being investigated, either by the CNE – a procedure in which the unpresentable former representative to the Chamber Álvaro Hernán Prada should declare himself prevented because his presence delegitimizes any decision – or even by the Commission of Accusations, because that solution does fracture the rule of law. It is one thing that the CNE cannot investigate Petro, because it would violate his constitutional jurisdiction, and another very different thing is that it cannot examine and review the accounts of his campaign, because it can and should do so.
Now Petro has to find out that if the Commission of Accusations is finally going to try him for anything, including the violation of the limits, his co-partisans who are part of that legislative cell would have to declare themselves disabled, because his boss invited “all the requests of the Historical Pact to meet immediately and the social forces of the country to prepare against the attempt to disrespect the popular vote.” If not, the story of Uribe would be repeated, who resigned from the Senate to get rid of the Supreme Court and put himself in the hands of the Barbosa Prosecutor’s Office, which treated him with sweet partiality.
The president is absent, because he continues to believe that the only “popular vote” was the one that anointed him president in 2022, ignoring that in 2023 the political forces were realigned and the Government lost the elections in Bogotá, Medellín, Cali, Barranquilla, Cartagena and Bucaramanga, to just mention those big cities. Let Petro land, because he is no longer riding on 11 million votes. Indeed, if it is about respecting the popular vote, as he is shouting, he must listen to and respect the political forces that defeated him last year, but, even more so, he is obliged not to challenge the institutional order.
Petro is so wrong that, even in the scenario that he had not lost the last regional elections and still had the millions of initial votes, in that event he would not have an excuse to prevent justice from fulfilling its mission. No democrat stands up against justice or resists it with the aim of defending the popular vote. What is he afraid of?
Petro is right when he threatens with his refrain that he is not afraid because he says: “I will continue as far as the people say, we will go where the Colombian people order.” The breadwinner with his angry outbursts is not him but the people who have to endure it.
Addendum. The State of Israel has the right to exist and defend itself, but not to annihilate the Palestinian people. No to the invasion of Rafah.
