Roy Barreras’ change of position confirms that the government is failing, assured Miguel Uribe

The latest statements by Congress President Historic Covenant Senator Roy Barreras were yet another crack that gave the opposition an excuse to point out how they believe the national government is failing.

Indeed, a day after Senator Barreras on Monday, March 6, called on the national government not to proceed with full peace talks, given the evidence of clandestine negotiations that some close to the presidency have argued with detainees and drug traffickers, Senator Uribe Turbay stressed that this is the same argument that the Democratic Center has been supporting for months.

“The new change of position of Senator Roy Barreras confirms that the government of Gustavo Petro is failing. It is important to emphasize that what the President of Congress assumes today as his own is exactly what we warned and alerted during the election campaign, and that from the first moment of this government, the opposition has been the head : avoid total impunity for drug traffickers“said the senator from the Democratic Center via his Twitter account around noon.

He added that after the latest statements by the parliamentarian, one of the key players in the historic Pact’s chess game in the political arena, “I expect Roy to act on his public criticism. and in his remaining time as Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, give him guarantee to the opposition and which, contrary to what happened in the context of the discussion of tax reform, allows for a substantive debate”, indicated Senator Uribe Turbay.

It is worth recalling the words of Congressman Roy Barreras: “I think it is necessary for the government to suspend all kinds of conversations and/or negotiations with drug traffickers. Such intermediation has undermined President Gustavo Petro’s noble goal of achieving total peace and is unnecessary. Let’s pass the law of submission and that they benefit from it”, chanted this Monday, March 6.

Moreover, also at the beginning of the week, he had immersed himself in Radio Blue, that “nothing is negotiated with the drug traffickers, even less the law (…) The State makes them an offer which is the Law of Submission to Justice and grants them some advantages so that they stop killing and to harm and recover their own lives and to be persecuted, to be able to lead a peaceful life and give Colombia a peaceful life (…). no need for clandestine negotiations neither in the prisons, nor in the streets, nor in the basements, it has all gone wrong, it undermines the noble goal of ‘Total Peace,’” Barreras said.

Point aside, given these signs of internal division, which last week caught the attention of public opinion when the parties liberal, conservative there by La U announced that they will present a document containing new proposals for the initiative, which testifies to a division of the pro-government parliamentary blocSenator Barreras called for unity, as well as pressing the accelerator of the reforms being processed in the Congress of the Republic:

“We have to protect the change, the president, Congress, the high courts and the whole institution. The country cannot revolve around scandals, we must focus on responsible pursuit of reforms that Colombians demand,” Senator Barreras tweeted Monday, March 6, via his Twitter account.

And then he reiterated, since some have misinterpreted his remarks, the message he wanted to convey: “I said the opposite: scandals should not affect the approval of reforms. The real answer to popular demand is concerted and sustainable social reforms. The country does not advance by going from scandal to scandal. It is progressing from reform to reform, ”he also said via Twitter at the start of the week.