:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/Q2D32M3TBVCGDGIYZHJNZU23ME.jpg "Gustavo Petro insisted on his powers to regulate the prices of public services: \"It's written in the Constitution\" 1")
From St. Andrewduring a meeting with the island communities, the president Gustavo Petro commented that he Board of state suspended, as a precautionary measure, Executive Order 227 of February 16, 2023 which granted Petro temporary powers to regulate and control public services. The president insisted that these powers of the executive are something that “is written in the constitution”. Statements he made when talking about solar energy in the archipelago.
“I believe that this island could carry out the first experiment of solar energy. There is a legal discussion on my constitutional powers to regulate and control public services, it is written in the article of the Constitution, but now it seems that since Petro is president now, he cannot have his constitutional powers” , said the president of San Andrés .
The president also spoke about some problems the island is experiencing, such as overcrowding, for which he proposed to create a return plan to the mainland for people who are not Raizal.
“The second problem we have here is overcrowding. We were talking about this problem in 2018 and it cannot remain as a campaign promise. A raizal population program must be built towards the mainland”.
This process, President Petro warned, would be voluntary:
“It’s complex, it’s difficult, we’ve talked about it often, but you have to build a program that transfers the non-Raizal population of San Andrés to the mainland, which implies that on the mainland they have to live, unless, the same as here. . I hope they improve their living conditions; it’s worth a ticket,” the president said.
During a presentation before the Council of State, magistrate Roberto Serrato claimed that the document did not explain why the deadline for receiving the concepts had been reduced.
The administrative code establishes that citizens and interested parties have 15 working days to deliver their concepts, this process was not respected with the publication of the decree in question, for which a two-day deadline was granted.
The document establishes that this deadline was fixed “taking into account the fact that it is a question of taking over the regulatory competence at the expense of the President of the Republic”, however, for the Board of state the principle of transparency and publicity has been violated as long as:
“Sustainability that does not respect the obligation to adequately justify and has reinforced the reason why the publicity of the draft regulations has been limited, as well as the restriction of the right to citizen participation at the stage preceding the issuance of the administrative decision”, explained the magistrate Roberto Serrato.
Under this argument, the first section affirmed that the powers of the entities in charge of the surveillance of the public services are already established in the political letter of 1991, reason for which it took precautionary measures.
“The urgent precautionary measure of provisional suspension of the legal effects of decree 227 of February 16, 2023 ‘By which some of the presidential functions of a regulatory nature in the field of residential public services are resumed and other provisions are promulgated'”, read in the text stopped by Board of state.
The magistrate tightened He also spoke about the precautionary measures, requested by the plaintiffs of the decree, considered that it was not a process that could be postponed, since the document was published three months ago, according to information published by NCR Radio.