Can the Senate Re-Vote the People's Consultation as Requested by Petro?

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The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, asked Congress to repeat the vote with which it sank the Popular Consultation that it was promoting and opened a debate on the legality of doing so. SEE MORE: What happened to the Popular Consultation? The reasons why it sankAccording to the president, in the vote there was fraud and some of the senators of the Historical Pact who had announced their support in favor of the popular consultation were prev…

The Senate sank the holding of the popular consultation with which the government of President Gustavo Petro sought to process the labor reform. President Gustavo Petro, asked the Senate to “put the popular consultation back on the ballot” on labor reform, which that corporation sank, and urged social organizations to meet “in open lobby in all municipalities” of the country. “I request the Senate to put the popular consultation back on the ball…

The bill did not get the backing of the Senate plenary and sank with 49 votes for the no 47 for the yes.

In a presidential address issued after the collapse of the popular consultation in the Senate, President Gustavo Petro formally asked the Upper House to repeat the vote on the bill. The president described the legislative procedure as irregular and loaded with procedural vices, denouncing what he considered to be a “dantesco” act by Congress. During his intervention, the head of state attacked the Senate leadership, pointing out the president of…

President Petro asks the Senate to vote again for the Popular Consultation of the Period Agency... Mié, 14/05/2025 - 20:43 From China, in presidential address, the Head of State called for calm and protest without violence and called for a meeting of social organizations to define actions. Tags { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "DataFeed", "name": "", "description": "", "creator": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Investigative Jour…