Petro: The ‘historic role’ of Congress is to process a call for a constituent

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Santos (2010-2018), who signed the agreement 2016 that demobilized the FARC, He thus responded to the idea that Petro verbalized last Friday, by ensuring that he not only wants to denounce the Colombian State before the UN for non-compliance with the implementation of the peace agreement, but also assured that this text would allow for the convening of a new constituent.

“Through the high contracting parties, a National Constituent Assembly”said the president, who has insisted on many occasions that he does not want to be re-elected in 2026, which is prohibited by the Constitution, but has already spoken on several occasions about creating a constituent assembly, without a clear way to do so.

Faced with these insinuations, Santos said in a video on Sunday that the peace agreement cannot be modified and that “a Constituent Assembly can only be convened using the procedures established by the Constitution.”

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“Any attempt to do it by other means would confront the legislative power, the judicial power, the Armed Forces and with the vast majority of Colombians”noted the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize winner.

For his part, former president Ernesto Samper (1994-1998) assured in a statement that he supports a constituent assembly but that the signed peace agreement does not enable it.

“In light of these current norms, it is not possible to legitimize the convocation of a Constituent Assembly in the Havana peace agreement signed between the State and the FARC: it would be a de facto Constituent Assembly, a leap into the void of institutionality that would begin by ignoring Congress and the Constitutional Court,” said Samper.

Credits: EFE Agency.