BOGOTA, Colombia– Colombian Head Of State Gustavo Petro on Thursday continued with his having a hard time strategy to revamp the nation’s labor regulations, sending out Congress a mandate proposition whose inquiries for citizens consist of whether days must be restricted to 8 hours and whether employees must get dual pay if they function throughout vacations.
With a lot of his schedule continuously obstructed by Congress, Petro is currently wagering that the exact same legislators that two times denied his labor reform will certainly enable citizens to determine whether they desire his suggested modifications. Congress has one month to accept or decline the 12-question vote.
Petro, Colombia’s very first leftist head of state, looked for to rally assistance for his task by joining a union presentation in the resources, Bogota, noting Labor Day.
” Individuals of Colombia wish to choose their basic civil liberties, for their self-respect,” Petro stated prior to countless demonstrators, asking to not elect to reelect any type of legislator that elects versus the vote.
If authorized by legislators, Petro will certainly need to provide a mandate mobilizing Colombians to the surveys within 3 months. Concerns for citizens would certainly consist of whether daytime days must finish at 6 p.m. and whether flexible agreements must be supplied to employees to focus on work security.
However getting over Congress is not Petro’s only problem in seeing his task come true. He requires vote involvement to go beyond 13 million– that’s greater than the variety of ballots he acquired to come to be head of state– and over half of those ballots have to favor his proposition.
Experts concur that Petro has the top hand in a number of circumstances, also if Congress does not accept the vote or if he stops working to acquire the needed ballots at the surveys. In the previous situation, Sandra Borda, government teacher at the College of the Andes, stated legislators would certainly offer Petro’s federal government the devices to “play the target” and enhance its unsupported claims versus Congress.
” The message the federal government has actually frequently attempted to send out is that Congress is no more an entity that stands for the rate of interests of individuals … however instead protects the rate of interests, as they call them, of the economic sector oligarchies,” Borda stated.
On the various other hand, if citizens wind up mosting likely to the surveys, the federal government can consider itself the champion by protecting assistance from its selecting base, stated Javier Garay, a government teacher at the Externship College of Colombia. He kept in mind that the vote’s underlying objective is to examine the federal government’s selecting assistance in advance of the 2026 governmental political election.
Union participants that were amongst the countless individuals showing Thursday in Bogota shared assistance for the vote.
” The vote is a vindication of employees’ civil liberties, which have actually been a battle for years and were eliminated from us by previous reactionary federal governments,” stated Jesús Parra, 53, among the militants.
