The Congress is preparing to vote in the next few hours in the last debate on the project that extends the Public Order Law so that the National government has the necessary powers to implement the policy of total peace.
Recently, from the opposition they denounced that the initiative contains a ‘monkey’ that would allow President Gustavo Petro pardon members of the ‘front line’ who may have committed crimes in the context of the protests.
Now the Democratic Center warned that The proposal contains another pearl that would authorize the norms for the collective submission of criminal organizations such as the ‘Clan del Golfo’ or the FARC dissidents, to be issued by decree, without the need for a new law to be processed in Congress.
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The Senator Paloma Valencia He said that this means that “the subjugation project that was leaked in some media and that brought all those outbursts that they only had to pay eleven months in prison and that they handed over the money and they could keep 10%, it will no longer come to Congress, but they will remove it by decree, according to the new paper”.
The Senator Ariel Avila admitted that the total peace project contemplates the possibility that the president can issue normative decrees when some contacts with criminal organizations are already being advanced to set some rules of negotiation.
“Particularly the processes of submission to justice are going to begin the approaches and Law 418 provides the general framework, That is why the president is given the capacity that when the process is advanced, a decree can be issued that regulates the subject of submission to justice, but the negotiations have not even begun and we do not know how they will end”, he indicated.
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“Here what is touched is some faculties to the president so that later he takes out some parameters in the framework of submission to justice, but that does not mean that some modifications to the Penal Code have to be introduced by law, The problem is that a project to submit it to justice cannot be presented, because we still do not know what we are going to negotiate,” he added.
Faced with this scenario, the political parties will seek to knock down these ‘monkeys’ that have been denounced and that could grant these exorbitant powers to the President of the Republic in matters of peace.
