The president-elect will be sworn in as Colombia’s president at a ceremony expected to bring in a dozen heads of state and some 100,000 from the public. Petro has promised to usher in the first “multicolored democracy” in Colombia.
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Colombian President-elect Gustavo Petro will be sworn in this Sunday to first left-wing president in the history of the country, during a ceremony attended by a dozen heads of state and some 100,000 people from the public. In addition, Francia Márquez will take over the position of vice president.
Petro has promised this Saturday in Bogotá build a new democracy that is “multicolored” in which the social movements work together and has ensured that “more and more popular organization throughout Colombia” is needed.
“The President of the Republic is calling on them to organize and undoubtedly that plurality, that multiculturalism, that multicolored spectrum that should be that of popular organization, must be united in the midst of diversity, coordinated and interrelated,” he said. Petro in a statement. a act of inauguration “popular and spiritual” in front of a thousand attendees, from indigenous, Afro, peasant and ethnic peoples from all over Colombia.
“It’s about opening a government with social movementsnot a government over social movements, let alone a government that eradicates social movements,” said Petro, stressing that it is the “Building a New Democracy” because “the country has never experienced what we call a multicolored democracy”.
In this sense, compared to the civil society organizations, which came in the majority to vote for who will be Colombia’s first left-wing president, he has defined himself in the strict sense of president: the one who does the errand, not the one who commands.
“And who orders the message? The people,” he promised, leaving it to the organizations to organize themselves to deliver those messages to them while he “organizes power”.
Profile of the new president
Gustavo Petro and his left-wing Historical Pact coalition were winners in the second round of Colombia’s June 20 presidential election, beating populist Rodolfo Hernández by 700,000 votes.
Petro is 62 years old, he is economist by professionand in his election manifesto he implemented, among other things, an agrarian reform, minimum income and the dismantling of the riot police.
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Source: EITB
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