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President Iván Duque, when inaugurating Yineth Merchán Calderón on Thursday as a magistrate of the Chamber of Labor Cassation in Decongestion of the Supreme Court of Justice, insisted that his government is respectful of the Constitution and the law and that his administration works as harmoniously with the other powers.
“Let this be the opportunity for us as a government to reiterate our respect for institutions and reiterate that our work as a government is to comply with the guidelines of the Constitution and the law to protect the life, honor, property, rights and freedoms of citizens. and that we work harmoniously with all the powers to comply with those fundamentals. We will not stop working in that direction for a single day, “said the president.
The Government has been in the midst of a controversy after a Supreme Court ruling that assured that there is a systematic violation of the right to protest.
“We as a government we have absolute certainty that all the constitutional rights contemplated and protected are respected and accompanied by us and by all members of the Public Force, “said Duque.
In any case, the president said that the government has also been relentless when members of the Public Force do not respond to what military and police honor requires or when they go beyond the Constitution and the law.
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“That is why the events in recent weeks in which we have had to reproach behaviors, we have done so, always frankly and clearly, as also today we reject those painful events that were seen in the department of Cauca in front of which we have asked for a clear and peremptory manner that also proceed with all the rigor of the law, “said Duque.
The vandals
The head of state also called for all of us to recognize that One thing is the peaceful and democratic demonstrations contemplated in the Constitution and another very different is the criminal acts, vandalism or acts that aim to develop low or medium intensity terrorism to endanger the institutions and rights of citizens.
“Today we saw, for example, how one of the ELN language terrorists claimed the participation of members of that organization in what was the violent attack on the CAI in Bogotá, an unprecedented fact,” he said.
“We always have to work so that these events can be prevented with all the intelligence work and also in harmonious collaboration with the Prosecutor’s Office,” the president added.
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