Opposition representative asks the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to monitor Petro’s behavior for warning of a “revolution”

President Gustavo Petro (on his balcony Colprensa – Camila Díaz)

On Monday, May 1, International Workers’ Day, President Gustavo Petro gave a new speech from the balcony of the Palacio de Nariño and before a whole crowd that was waiting for him in the Plaza de Armas. The president, who was with the first lady, mentioned among references to former president Gustavo Rojas Pinilla and Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, issues of upcoming reforms, the implementation of the peace agreement, and even spoke of his recent opponents.

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The speech was received alarmingly by the opposition, which has described it as radical and as an indirect threat to the independence of state powers. Precisely the representative to the Chamber on behalf of the Hernán Cadavid Democratic Center assured that he requested the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) to monitor the State, and specifically the actions of President Petro.

“Given the challenges, threats and attacks of the President of the Republic yesterday (May 1) from the balcony, against Congress and justice, I have decided to go to the Inter-American Human Rights System, before the IACHR rapporteur for Colombia so that I can monitor In a special way, the conduct that is being presented is a direct attack on democracy, institutions and the rule of law, and we also turn to the Inter-American System to seek protection and control this concentration and excess of power in which Gustavo Petro incurs, president of Colombia”.

President Petro’s speech had a central axis in territorial development and progress based on guaranteeing conditions at all national levels, the word revolution was also reiterated on different occasions by the head of state who also used the figure of Pinilla and Gaitán as an analogy. .

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“I drew this act from an example given to us by former president Alfonso López Pumarejo, who was called ‘comrade president’, who, being a member of one of the richest elites in the country, decided on a social transformation, one of the deepest that has been attempted in Colombia on behalf of his government and the Liberal Party of that time, a profoundly progressive one”, commented the head of state during ‘the balcony’.

Although the representative of the Democratic Center was not the only member of the opposition to question Petro’s speech in the Plaza de Armas, former president Andrés Pastrana also spoke of the intervention of more than an hour in which the president not only spoke of the health reform projects, pension, labor and rural systems, but instead launched a harsh criticism of ‘the elites’, the banks, the EPS and even former President César Gaviria.

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Through his official Twitter account, the former leader of the Conservative Party said:

“Given the null support in the streets for his follies, Petro declares the health and pensions of Colombians as a military objective.”

Former President Andrés Pastrana criticized President Petro’s speech. Twitter @AndresPastrana_

Another of the members of the bench of the Democratic Center that set off the alarms with the presidential speech was Senator Paola Holguín, the Uribista politician pointed out that the radical positions of Gustavo Petro are increasingly evident.

“Colombians are concerned about Petro’s ‘balcony’, his increasingly radical speeches, his ability to tolerate dissent, even within his own cabinet, and trying to go over the parties and institutions,” said the congresswoman.

Although President Petro is not only being questioned by the Colombian right, members of the Spanish Vox party and other right-wing groups have been present in front of the Iberian parliament protesting during the intervention of the Colombian head of state in the framework of his diplomatic visit to Spain.

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