Petro warns of a new social outbreak in Colombia

Even in Cali, is where the already recognized Puerto Resistenciaa symbol of social protest and of the First Line, the entity in charge of carrying out confrontations with the Police.

How are Gustavo Petro’s reforms progressing in the legislature?

The social reforms that Gustavo Petro refers to in his speech are the pillars with which, in 2022, he managed to reach the presidency of Colombia under his proposal of the ‘Government of change’.

In the Congress of the Republic, at the beginning of his mandate, the tax reform. However, from then on, the president has had problems approving his reforms.

The first to stay in the legislature was political reform, which sought to make various changes to the way in which Colombians currently vote. In this document one could see proposals such as the obligation to present closed and zippered lists for popularly elected positions.

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The reform that followed in the debate it was health which, after several months of debate, failed to obtain enough votes to be approved and collapsed in the House of Representatives.

The most recent and with which the government seems to be achieving a victory again is the pension reform which, after being approved in the plenary session of the Senate in a few debates, went to the House of Representatives, where it has 40 days to pass two more debates.