Although with reservations, Vargas Lleras gets on the constituent bus. Why?

For several months, March to be exact, the proposal of a national constituent assembly by President Gustavo Petro has aroused all kinds of fears in the various political sectors of the country that still see in this figure a strategy to pave the way for a possible re-election which the head of state, for his part, has repeatedly denied.

The opposition, represented by Álvaro Uribe, Germán Vargas Lleras, Iván Duque and their supporters, have widely discussed the initiative that now, after the appointment of the liberal Juan Fernando Cristo as Minister of the Interior, takes on a new air and seems to begin to gain support for the new perspective and the guarantees that Christ, once a critic of the constituent assembly, could contribute to it.

This was expressed in the last few hours by former Vice President Germán Vargas Lleras, who, spirited and expectant, praised the first declaration of Juan Fernando Cristo at the head of the political portfolio, highlighting that far from the effusive pronouncements of the president, the new Minister of the Interior opened the door to national dialogue, with the opposition in a privileged place, and Following the parameters established in the 1991 Constitution for a company like the one proposed.

“We, I mean myself and our political sector, We would be willing to participate in the political agreement that makes this process viable and also the constituent assembly itself. What we strongly disagree with (…) were the statements of Gustavo Petro himself of only calling for some sectors related to the Government, that a constituent assembly would be launched not under the parameters of the constitution, that the constituent power would call itself,” said Vargas Lleras in an interview with La W.