Massive March Against Government Reforms: Defending Democracy, Freedom, and Rule of Law in Colombia

2023-06-20 21:50:52

In many cases dressed in white and with national flags, in others with tricolor umbrellas to soften the sun, the protesters occupied squares and parks before marching through the downtown areas of the main cities.

In the center of the Colombian capital, thousands of people summoned by the opposition and ex-military and retired policementhey walked to the Plaza de Bolívar, next to the presidential headquarters and the Congress, where the government reforms are discussed.

The claims of the opposition to Petro

In a document only signed by “The March of the Majority”, the conveners claimed that the protesters “they defend democracy and freedom, the independence of powers, the freedom of the press and the rule of law”.

Among the 14 points of the demands, they demanded that the health reform be abandoned “so that the Colombian health system is not destroyed and that a strategy is built so that it can be improved”.

In addition, it is requested that the governmentreassess the pension reform, so that those who do not have the possibility of having a stable old age receive a decent pension without affecting the 18 million savers” and the labor reform is archived “so that a new initiative can be agreed to create employment, reduce informality and increase national productivity”.

The text also asks that “drugs such as cocaine, heroin and chemical drugs should not be legalized” and stresses that there is “a health problem that must be addressed from the root, and that is fighting drug trafficking.”

that the public and armed forces “be respected and valued, and that they be allowed to fight drug trafficking and crime that today puts Colombians at riskespecially in the most remote territories”, the pronouncement also claims.

On the other hand, opponents request that “the independence of powers not be interfered with and that the control entities have total autonomy to carry out investigations into the cases of corruption that have tarnished the Government of the day”.

And they manifest themselves in favor of “maintaining the system of checks and balances so that there is transparency in the actions of all the powers of the Stateincluding the legislative and judicial.

This is how the massive march once morest the Government of Gustavo Petro in Cali was experienced

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