2023-06-21 11:10:00
Under slogans such as “Colombia must be saved”, “To defend freedom and order”, “They are destroying everything” and “Let’s say no to communism”, opponents of the Petro government gathered in cities like Bogota, Medellin, Cali, Barranquilla, Ibagué, Valledupar and other cities in what was called by the conveners as “The March of the Majority”.
The nonconformists questioned the reforms promoted by the current Administration such as labor, pensions and health, which are currently being discussed in Congress and which are part of the programmatic axis of Petro, the first president emanating from a left-wing political movement in the Latin American country.
“What country do we want for our sons and daughters? The one that the ELN, the FARCS and all the drug traffickers want to impose on us or one where freedom, decency, values and above all, God prevail? Colombia is the priority, the good ones are more,” the journalist Vicky Dávila, director of the magazine Weekone of the most critical media of the Colombian government and considered by some as one of the main promoters of the mobilization.
“The opposition to Petro must be advanced not only in Congress, but in the street and here in the street it is the most important, not that of Congress, but that of the citizenry. There they defeat us all the time because we are a minority, but They do feel this message,” said representative Hernán Cadavid, of the Democratic Center, the party of former President Álvaro Uribe, another of the conveners of the mobilization.
For his part, the President Gustavo Petro assured that will take care of the safety and integrity of all protestersregardless of their ideology or political affiliation.
Is Petro’s idea of obtaining international financing for the ELN viable?
“That nothing happens with any protester, that it be the expression of the democratic mood that they can express themselves here as they want, as long as their rights are respected, against the same government and nothing happens, nothing happens, I think that is the very essence of democracy, hopefully it will always be like this going forward,” said the president during the promotion ceremony of the Director of Police, General William Salamanca.
In that same event, Petro called on the director of the Police to proceed against the corrupt officials.
“When I appointed General Salamanca, the first thing I thought, being the new Director of the National Police, is that a strong and profound fight against corruption could be generated there. Proceed, General, whoever falls falls!” Petro pointed out. .
Since his election, Petro has carried out a series of legal reforms, however, he has faced opposition in the legislative arena. Congress rejected his labor reform on June 20.
In this regard, the president of Colombia warned that his Administration “will not abandon the interests of the worker and the worker” despite the opposition.
His government has also been implicated in other scandals. On June 9, the Attorney General’s Office announced that it will investigate the electoral campaign of President Gustavo Petro to rule out possible illegal financing, a case that began as a result of a publication made by the magazine Week.
“Never in my existence have I even seen the amount of money claimed by an anonymous source and used by the journalist Vicky Dávila for a publication,” Petro replied after the accusations against him.
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