After Carlos Camargo was elected as magistrate of the Constitutional Court, after the vote of the congressmen, President Gustavo Petro manifested himself and asked the bench of the Historical Pact to not use the secret vote.
And is that The president had asked the congressmen to support María Patricia Balanta And not who finally won, Camargo. So possibly members of that bench would have supported him, disobeying the guideline given by Petro.
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“Never a progressive bench in a Congress or Parlamemto must make use of the secret vote, so the norm allows it. It has nothing to hide and democracy must be transparent“Petro said from his official X.
“I ask you not to use the secret vote, and publicly show your vote. The secret is from the mafias“The head of state added.
Petro argued that whoever does not guide the guidelines of the party will be excluded from it: “Incidentally, who departs from the guidelines of the party, the vote is not removed, that is American anti -convention of human rights. It is only excluded from movement. Who represents the progressive movement knows that it must be consistent, firm, to risk, and that the future is with us but we abandon the foundations of science“
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Thus, the president concluded that “In the soul you should not have any incoherent save, Thus we will always be free in politics and bring Colombian society to freedom and democracy“
Never a progressive bench in a Congress or Parlamemto must make use of the secret vote, so the norm allows it. It has nothing to hide and democracy must be transparent.
I ask you not to use the secret vote, and publicly show your vote.
The secret is from …
– Gustavo Petro (@Petrogustavo) SEPTEMBER 7, 2025
Discomfort inside the party
Gustavo Bolívar, former director of the Department of Social Prosperity (DPS) was one of the first to point out that much of Carlos Camargo’s victory occurred by the votes of the same left. “Several senators and senators. Even from the historical pact, they turned to the last minute. Did they reach the price? The rats nest does not disappoint when policy and justice”
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In fact, the former senator recalled the figure of Jonatan Tamayo, ‘Manguito’, chosen by the Petrismo lists in 2018, but who, during the legislature, was very close to Uribismo, insisting on an alleged betrayal in the ranks of the historical pact. “The brand new Camargo magistrate arrived almost defeated to Congress and one hour for another changed the result. Those votes turned, what sadness those sleeves that we continue to choose within our lists, with the progressive votes“
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