After the victory of Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez in the second electoral round, which earned them to finally reach the House of Nariño, the Historical Pact called an emergency meeting with their Senate and House of Representatives benches, to discuss issues that revolve around to work in the legislature and political alliances in the Congress of the Republic.
The meeting chaired by Roy Barreras and the elected senator María José Pizarro, revolved around three axes, in view of the legislative work that Gustavo Petro will have and the confirmation of his government cabinet: “This is the first parliamentary government meeting that begins to build parliamentary majorities in a government of Gustavo Petro; In a democracy, an elected president requires majorities.Barriers emphasized.
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Faced with these “parliamentary majorities”, Barreras pointed out where and on what fronts they would enter focusing the work: “there are three axes: peace, social justice and environmental justice”, adding who they would be looking for to consolidate Petro’s governability in the legislature, “we hope that the other parties will accompany the parliamentary caucus, the Esperanza Center and the Green, the parties of liberal origin, we even expect the senators of conservative origin”.
At the time, Senator Gustavo Bolivar He gave stitches of names that hover around the legislative work and that would compete for the presidency of the Senate. “We are Roy Barreras, Alexander López Amaya, Clara López, María José Pizarro and I, as head of the list, to occupy the presidency of the Senate”, held.
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Bolívar pointed out that, “We are going to come to an agreement, but we are waiting for a nod from Gustavo Petro, which is very important, to know where he wants us, if in a possible government or in the work from the Congress of the Republic”.
Finally, in the line of work in an eventual government of Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez, Bolívar added that, “I have been very uncomfortable in Congress because we are the opposition, I wait for a wink from Gustavo Petro to know where he wants me. He added his desire to see figures like Alejandro Gaviria and Luis Gilberto Murillo. “We are not going to be sectarian, we want a government with a very broad political spectrum”, Bolívar stressed at the bench meeting.
