Former President Álvaro Uribe once again criticized President Gustavo Petro’s constitutional proposal.
From the Sergio Arboleda University, Uribe warned about the risks it would imply for popular participation and the country’s democratic stability.Petro’s attempt to create a new method for convening a constituent initiative.
According to Uribe, Petro’s proposal It lacks solid foundations and is in contradiction with the Constitution of 86, which allowed greater breadth in the declaration of states of siege. The former president highlighted that at that time, the rights associated with said states had a much broader scope, which included the convening by decree of a constituent assembly, as former president Gaviria did. However, today, according to Uribe, it is not possible to replicate that action.
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For Uribe, the convocation of a Constituent Assembly, as well as other forms of popular exercise such as plebiscite or consultation, are rigorously regulated in the Constitution. Therefore, any attempt by Petro to invent a new mechanism to summon her It would be considered, according to Uribe, as a clear coup d’état.
The leader of the Democratic Center, the main opposition force to the Petro government, stressed that the figure used by Gaviria at the time to convene the Constituent Assembly that gave life to the 1991 Constitution, is not legally feasible today.
The former president’s statements continue to generate all kinds of reactions from users on social networks.
From the Sergio Arboleda University with students from the constitutional law class:
President Petro’s proposal would violate popular participation. Reasons. pic.twitter.com/mUBb2QSO4L
— Álvaro Uribe Vélez (@AlvaroUribeVel) April 15, 2024
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