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Palacios told the senator, according to Blu Radio, to do politics without lying, because it was not true that the government was considering decreeing the state of shock, a measure that a president implements when there is a serious disturbance of public order, and that gives him powers to restrict demonstrations, control the media and even suspend mayors.
And it is that Cepeda assured in the plenary session of the Senate on Tuesday that a “credible source” told him that in the House of Nariño they were studying to decree the figure, also called a state of exception, to “silence the claims of the citizenry.”
The congressman added, in a statement he posted on his Twitter, that Colombia is “facing an increasingly authoritarian and militaristic regime” and criticized President Iván Duque and Defense Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo for, according to him, ignoring the separation of public powers, as read below:
My record today in the Senate. I received information from a credible source: the Government would study declaring a state of internal commotion in order to take measures that limit social protest, the independence of the Judiciary and muzzle the opposition. A true institutional break: pic.twitter.com/g4XkGOVOPu
– Iván Cepeda Castro (@IvanCepedaCast) September 29, 2020
That complaint, Noticias Caracol assured, was one of the arguments that Gustavo Petro used to encourage a new strike on October 21.
For this reason, the Government reiterated that the statements of the Senator of the Democratic Pole were “completely false, tendentious and intended to mislead public opinion,” said Blu Radio.
The clash between the national administration and Cepeda occurred just when the Bogotá Mayor’s Office agreed with the Government guidelines to regulate social protest, after the 14 deaths and more than 300 injuries that remained from the demonstrations on September 10 and 11.
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