During the speech on Monday, President Gustavo Petro announced to the country that on May 1 the text of the popular consultation will be presented to Congress.
“The day of work, I invite you to duplic He highlighted in his speech, emphasizing that “The popular consultation goes because it goes.”
The Head of State stressed that since it is an initiative in which the Colombian people will have the power of decision, it is this same “The one who must go out to defend it in peace, as we have always summoned it, in joy and a different status, which is the people who send and no longer the people that obeys.”
The first president also assured that he foresaw his filing in the Senate, Interior Minister Armando Benedetti, will announce next Tuesday, April 22, the questions that will integrate this mechanism.
“I will be that May 1 in the Plaza de Bolívar and I will enter the Congress, once let’s talk there in public, to present personally and, with a popular delegation the most diverse, the official text of the popular consultation”Petro said.
Along the same line, he indicated that this day Bolívar’s sword will be taken to “Repeat a phrase that the Liberator delivered at the time and is that Until there is no social justice in Colombia, the sword will not be puffed, but will continue to be drawn as today is in the halls of this Nariño house. That sword must guide the popular consultation today, and, therefore, it will be exposed. “
Nullity request
In his speech, the president also mentioned those he considers“Censorship attempts” To the televised transmission of the Councils of Ministers, which is why the National Government has submitted a application for nullity with a view to reverse the ruling issued by the State Council that took them out of the air.
“With the fact of censoring the Council of Ministers, we will seek that the plenary of the State Council return through the Constitution of 91, does not prevent us from speaking, because other laws that were not demanded allow us public”he mentioned.
According to the decision of the High Court, these meetings would be limiting the possibility of accessing other sources of information, thus deriving citizens consume only the official information presented by the Executive.
In that sense, it was emphasized that the transmissions that have been made in recent weeks, violated the right of citizens to receive plural, objective, truthful and timely information.
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