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The proposal comes as a criticism of the denial of the article of the new electoral code that allowed all members of a coalition, including significant groups, to receive legal status if said alliance exceeded the threshold.
Gustavo Petro played an important role in the First Commission in the debate and in the drafting of several of the articles of the Electoral Code. However, at the end of the entire legislative process of the reform, the leader of Colombia Humana denied said text and gave his negative vote to its approval. The main reason was the refusal of a proposal that was not contemplated in the presentation and that established that significant movements could form coalitions and, if that alliance crossed the threshold, all the members of it received legal status.
This addition was presented in the last Senate Election Code discussions and was denied. However, it was once again considered in the conciliation, since an article with similar intentions had been approved in the Chamber. However, in the homogenization of the texts, this point was once again denied and from the awnings of Human Colombia it was pointed out that the reason for denying this article was to prevent them from being recognized “full rights for their electoral participation.” .
And it is that without legal status, the movement led by Gustavo Petro does not enjoy the benefits that the parties have. Among these advantages is receiving state funding, being able to declare in opposition, have the right to reply and present candidates by themselves in the different elections. This is the reason why the former mayor of Bogotá has been involved in the struggle for his movement to be granted legal status, but his request has been rejected in different instances.
In response to the latest refusal by Congress for his movement to have legal status, Senator Petro issued a series of trills in which he criticized the decision and even put on the table the idea of stopping fighting for this figure in favor of his movement .
According to the former presidential candidate, the Legislative’s decision leaves them with two alternatives: “Fight for the legal status of Colombia Humana on an independent and lonely list” or “sacrifice our legal existence to build the Historical Pact of Colombia and change the Congress of the Republic”. Faced with this dilemma, the senator proposed sacrificing the legal existence of his movement to create a great pact that allows “to change Congress, society and the Presidency.”
In another communication, the opposition congressman indicated that Colombia Humana will continue as a political force “without public funding, or access to the media or guarantees of the opposition statute.” In short, Gustavo Petro’s approach would imply that by 2022 he would present a coalition list, as they already did with the “list of decency” in 2018, sacrificing the possibility of seeking legal status for them.
The fight for the legal status of Colombia Humana goes beyond this failed paragraph. In 2018, Petro requested this figure for his movement, arguing that he had obtained more than 8 million votes during the presidential elections. However, the electoral court replied that the law required that in order to obtain legal recognition he must exceed the 3% margin in the legislative elections and this would not have happened since his movement was presented in coalition with the UP and the Maís.
