The usage of the peace settlement that he signed with the extinct FARC guerrilla to convene a Constituent Meeting is “absurd,” the previous president of Colombia mentioned this Sunday Juan Manuel Santos, in a video commentary from Brazil through which he frontally rejects an concept that has begun to take grasp for the reason that Executive of Gustavo Petro. “That was once exactly one of the crucial crimson traces that we maintained within the negotiation,” mentioned the Nobel Peace Prize winner.
“A Constituent Meeting can handiest be convened the use of the procedures established by way of the Charter; any strive to take action by way of every other method would confront the legislative energy, the judicial energy, the Armed Forces and the majority of Colombians,” he added. The previous president was once express, inviting the present Executive “to pay attention to fixing the rising issues that afflict the inhabitants.” One of the vital tactics to try this, Santos maintains, is exactly to put in force the peace settlement, “which calls for neither a Constituent Meeting nor particular agreements, however quite political will and the power to translate intentions into realities.”
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