Colombian President Gustavo Petro has announced his intention to call a referendum on labor and health reforms, despite opposition from Congress. teleSUR
00:00In Colombia, President Gustavo Petro denounced plans to undermine his government and announced that he would call for a referendum by decree.
00:07The president asserted that there is a legal attack promoted by far-right-wing sectors in alliance with the United States to hinder his government.
00:16The head of state took the opportunity of his speech to defend his decision to call a popular consultation by decree,
00:21a mechanism that, as he explained, seeks to strengthen citizen participation in the midst of what he described as an onslaught of the elites against his political project.
00:30In this regard, he detailed that the Constitutional Court will be in charge of deciding on the realization of the referendum,
00:37assuring that the judicial entity must guarantee that the will of the people is expressed.
00:41The pension reform depends on the Constitutional Court at this moment as a law of the Republic approved by the Congress of Colombia.
00:56The Constitutional Court will have in its hands the other judicial instance, if not the institutional court,
01:01the decree of call for popular consultation that I will make this week.
01:05I know that everything will fall on me and I know that I will accelerate the threats against me,
01:10but the people must express themselves because they are the owners of the political power in.
01:22Colombia there is no other owner and what Senator Cepeda did was a VAGABONDAGE in the people
01:29and his vote is illegitimate because he never put the Senate of the Republic to discuss the favorable or unfavorable concept of the popular consultation.
