“I Will Attack the Decision of the Popular Lobbyists”: What Message Is Petro Sending?

The Senator of the Historical Pact, María José Pizarro, made a formal request this Thursday to the Senate Board of Directors to proceed with the appeal filed during the May 14 session and to move to a new vote on the popular consultation. READ ALSO: President Petro states that the popular consultation of the Senate of Colombia will once again take place “I have lodged a formal request before the Senate Board of Directors to hear my appeal and to…

Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced on Friday that he will present to Congress a new request for popular consultation, a mechanism to summon citizens to the polls, after the first request failed this week when the Senate denied its endorsement in a controversial vote that the government called fraudulent. The new initiative [...] The Petro entry will present new request for popular consultation to Congress after failure of first attempt …

The thrust of the popular consultation by the Senate of the Republic on Wednesday set the moods of President Gustavo Petro, who once again called on the people’s lobbyists to make a decision that, he claims, he will abide by. What message is the President sending? After the sinking of the popular consultation, categorized by him and his governing party, the Historical Pact, as a cheaty move and a fraud, the head of state wrote in his X account t…

The application was presented to the board of directors of that corporation by the Senator of the Historical Pact María José Pizarro. The Historical Pact party, led by President Gustavo Petro, formally presented to the Senate a petition for the plenary to repeat the vote on the popular consultation that was rejected yesterday, in a vote that the president called “fraud” and “scoffs the Constitution.” The request was presented to the board of dir…