The National Trade Union Council (CGN) told President Gustavo Petro that he must “defend the Social State of Law, the separation of public powers, compliance with the Constitution and the law, and guarantee the rights and freedoms of all Colombians”, regarding the demonstrations scheduled for this week.
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According to the businessmen, Petro has the constitutional obligation to symbolize national unity and guarantee citizen access to the content of said bills, so that citizens, under their own judgments and opinions, decide to support or not the projects and reforms presented by the Government.
For the Union Council, citizenship and democratic institutions have the right to know with sufficient time the proposed texts by the executive in order to assess its social and economic impacts.
The businessmen added that it is the duty of citizens to respect and support the legitimately constituted democratic authorities such as the Congress of the Republic, pTo maintain independence and institutional integrity.
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“The reforms that will affect millions of Colombians must be analyzed in the constitutionally defined spaces that allow healthy debate with arguments and figures. Transferring the debate to the streets puts the institutional framework at risk”, said the CGN.
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