For second consecutive Year, the match Comunes was in charge of making the reply, making use of the statute of the oppositionto the Congress installation speech made by President Iván Duque on the afternoon of July 20.
In the Senate chamber, Senator Julián Gallo spoke for nearly 20 minutes during which he pointed out, among other things, that “four years ago when we made our first speech, we had just signed a peace agreement and we had the illusion that the government that was beginning was going to reasonunderstanding that such a serious and transcendental issue”.
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The reply speech that was planned to be carried out at the end of the intervention of President Iván Duque, could not be held due to technical problems in the Chamber of Representativeswhere the plenary session of Congress initially met.
Galló also indicated that “Unfortunately, President Duque, you were inferior to that historical mission that you had. His public policy ‘Peace with Legality’ was nothing more than a hoax to prevent our people from achieving peace.”
“During the four years of government you dedicated yourself to stigmatizing the signatories of the agreementto the party that emerged from the Peace Agreement, and that today means 336 tombs of signatories that had to be opened because you were inferior to that ethical, political and moral obligation”, emphasized the Commons senator.
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The person in charge of the replica commented that the outgoing president was “devoted himself to developing a two-track policy, because in the country he did everything possible to break the peace agreementbut he gloated in international circles saying that the impossible was done for the implementation”.
At the end of his speech, the former member of the extinct FARC made a comment in which he asserted that “The only good thing he did was pave the way for the opposition to become the Government, bye Duke!”
