The Government, headed by the Minister of Justice, Eduardo Montealegre, This Thursday, October 23, he presented the articles to convene a National Constituent Assembly in Colombia. The announcement was made from Shanghai, China, where he is on an official visit.
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Montealegre assured that the articles “are the starting point to build on it the foundations of the transformation that Colombia requires.” “Through the confrontation of arguments, and not violence, we will think of a new country,” he assured.
The bill presented by Montealegre proposes convening a National Constituent Assembly made up of 71 delegates and equally composed of men and women.
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According to the text, the Assembly will reform the entire Political Constitution and will not revoke Congress. Its limits will be “prior commitments regarding international treaties on human rights, the norms of Ius Cogens, the prohibition of regression in terms of fundamental rights and respect for the principle of non-regression in social rights“.
The project proposes that the Assembly meet for three months from the moment of its installation, which will occur 30 calendar days after the declaration of the election of the delegates.
The reasons for the Constituent Assembly
The Ministry of Justice published a statement in which it gives the arguments to convene the Constituent Assembly to reform the country’s political charter. “In the 20th century, the world witnessed in amazement one of humanity’s greatest revolutions: the transformation of the People’s Republic of China into an economic colossus. An example of how an army of poor farmers can change the land. After a long march, they broke the old chains and decided to be free“, can be read initially.
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He then added: “Under the leadership of many diverse social sectors—peasants, workers, women heads of families, gypsies, young people, victims of the conflict, blacks and indigenous people—in the Plaza de Bolívar in Bogotá, under the gaze of its liberating sword, Colombia will begin a path to achieve a leap forward in search of human dignity. Autonomous, without imperial impositions. No foreign humiliations. We will begin a constituent process that transforms the country and provides it with new institutions that respond to the needs of the 21st century. Some from ’91 became obsolete. Others are used by deeply retarded sectors to destroy social achievements. This must change“.
He then stated: “From the city of Shanghai, one of the most advanced regions in the world in new technologies and cultural diversity, where the peoples of East and West can meet on the basis of equality, solidarity and respect for the dignity of others, I invite you to begin the great march to build the new Constitution of social change. Defeating the institutional blockade that prevents progress, defeating the takeover of the country by sectors that want to return the unstoppable wheel of history and installing the paramilitary governance of the past, is the greatest challenge that Colombia faces in the 21st century.“.
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