Marta Lucía Ramírez responds to Roy Barreras for his proposal to revoke Iván Duque

The Vice President of the Republic, Marta Lucía Ramírez, referred to Senator Roy Barreras’ proposal to seek a referendum that would allow the President of the Republic, Iván Duque Márquez, to be revoked.

Following his resignation from the party, Barreras began the march of his plan to revoke Duque’s presidency. ANDOn Thursday, October 29, the committee in charge of the referendum registered with the National Registry.

Although the figure of the presidential recall does not exist in the Colombian legal body, Barreras explained that he will promote a change in the Constitution in order for citizens to be in charge, by means of a vote, to revoke a president who has in the he has been in office for two years and has not complied with his government program.

“A few weeks ago the former president and former senator, Álvaro Uribe, announced a referendum that proposes to revoke the Cortes, revoke the JEP and revoke the peace, I tell them that I prefer to revoke them, the Uribe-Duque government ”, he told the media Barreras, who resigned from his previous group to create his own political party.

In an interview for Vicky Dávila’s program in Semana magazine, Marta Lucía Ramírez described the initiative as a ‘suicidal adventure’ and recalled the political movements of Barreras, which according to her, have been made strategically thought and personal convenience. “In the government of President (Álvaro) Uribe, I saw him as very Uribista, he retired from Cambio Radical. Later, we saw him as the most anti-Uribe, the most Santista ”. The vice president added that Roy Barreras was part of the collective of former vice president Germán Vargas Lleras, whom he later questioned to go with former president Álvaro Uribe.

In the same way, she described Barreras’ move as opportunistic because, according to her, what the senator would be looking for would be “more prominence for a presidential campaign” taking into account the end of the legal mandate of Iván Duque in 2022. “That is not the way”Ramírez condemned.

For the official, the speech proposed by the senator is neither propositional nor constructive, Besides representing a great cost and damage to the country, “the proposal is foolish and inappropriate (…) We are a decent government, we are committed to working for every Colombian (…) I’d tell Roy to really think back. We have seen him several times, we even saw him offering his collaboration to this government “, he accused.

In the same way, the senator warned that the help of citizens would be needed, so he made a direct invitation. “I hope that all citizens, of all militancies and no militancy who have a common purpose, will join us in Colombia; to revoke this government so that we can give hope to Colombia and we can offer it a new alternative of power ”.

Barrera already has allies in the revocation project. Its committee is made up of the writer and journalist Patricia Lara Salive, the conflict resolution expert David Murcia, the youth leaders David Suárez Rojas, Jonathan Valencia, Javier González, and Lizeth Sierra, the animalist Natalia Sierra Saleh and the Afro-Colombian leader Paulino Riascos .

Regarding those allies, the vice president assured that it was something “petty” and referred to them as “friends”, among whom she even mentioned former president Juan Manuel Santos. “They are political buddies with Roy Barreras; the country can read it better than I can. It is necessary to see if the political cronies, in order to want to harm the Government, decide to dedicate themselves to this campaign to revoke President Duque. That is a great pettiness, but hey, there they ”, concluded.

For the revocation to be a fact, it is expected that the registration of the promoter committee will be approved by the National Registry, which would give Barreras a free pass to collect the more than two million signatures that are needed for the project to become in a bill before Congress.

From there, the bill must pass four debates to later be sanctioned by the President of the Republic. If all these filters are passed, the Constitutional Court would be responsible for reviewing the law, endorsing it and passing it to the Registrar’s Office, which would call for a citizen vote that would define Duque’s revocation by voting ‘Yes’ or ‘No’.

It would then be that the final decision would be part of the Political Constitution of the Country.