Aníbal Charry González
For greater clarity about the heading of this column, it is necessary to specify the etymology of its words so that there is also a complete understanding of the constitutional reform project that the representative to the Chamber for the Historical Pact David Racero has filed to allow political transfuguism . According to Wikipedia, a politician is a citizen who is dedicated to public interests in general and who in democratic societies participates with his opinion, with his political philosophy, with his vote, with his participation and with his abilities in the decisions that have to be made. take to organize everything that affects public interests. In short, all citizens engage in politics seeking the solution of public interests, either directly with their opinion or with their vote to elect their representatives in Congress.
Turncoat which is a pejorative term that has as synonyms according to the Royal Spanish Academy: being a fugitive, turncoat, fugitive, and deserter, and which applied to political activity is a person who flees from one party to another like changing shirts without any consistency. ideological, and that is considered a traitor or disloyal to its political ideas, is precisely what gives rise to political transfuguism, which is a kind of political chameleonism that seeks not the solution of public interests, but of particular or group interests according to the convenience to accommodate the circumstances of that same lineage, which is far from being a true political activity as an art of government for the benefit of society.
Well, this etymological precision being necessary for the purpose of this article, as has been said, it is still reprehensible that a reform project is presented to elevate transfuguism to a constitutional category as betrayal or disloyalty to a party or political ideas that They must seek the solution of collective interests, to try to consolidate through procedures that undermine personal political or group interests, and even more so in this corrupt and violent country where we have turned political activity into a vulgar business of buying and selling guarantees to the highest bidder where they are financed. the campaigns with mafias of all stripes to assault the public budget, and we have without precedent in the world 37 political parties and movements lacking political ideology dedicated to the exploitation of the infamous business that is the denial of what the authentic exercise of politics implies .
That is why we must now classify as inconvenient and unhealthy this reform project that does not strengthen the parties but debases them, and only seeks, as I have said, to solve the problem for many congressmen to accommodate themselves without any ideology to the sun that shines brighter than according to their petty interests of individual or group profit, when what should be undertaken is a thorough constitutional reform of the electoral political system and parties where rot abounds, so that we have the support of a clean exercise of politics for the benefit of the Colombian people.