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Luis Ernesto Gómez explained why the District and the National Government could not meet the deadline set by the Administrative Court of Cundinamarca to deliver the protocols of attention to social protest. He revealed how long they will deliver the document.
He acknowledged that they worked intensely for three days to comply with what was ordered by Judge Nelly Villamizar and that, during the meetings, there was “good spirit to build and generate consensus” in what the robe defined as “an antagonism between the public force and citizenship ”, but the views of both parties“ are still very distant ”.
According to Gómez, “the National Government presented a protocol in which there were three things that worried us.”
One was that, “before giving more powers to the civil authority so that with its democratic criteria it could give an orientation to the use of force, (the Executive) gave these powers to the command of the Police of the municipalities.”
In another, “it prescribed a series of measures for the protesters, established rules of conduct and this, which is quite problematic. In case of wanting to be regulated, under no circumstances can a resolution do it, that must be done by the Congress of the Republic through a statutory law that would have automatic constitutionality, “he added.
Regarding this aspect, he pointed out that the Government “intended to prohibit the use of paintings, give them and demand that those who intend to demonstrate a non-contractual civil policy and this type of thing what they do is curtail, restrict the right to protest and in this the Constitutional Court it has been very clear that it must be guaranteed at all times ”.
“The third point, which is where efforts should be focused, is that when it comes to applying force, the legitimate force of the State, when for example there are disturbances, there is a problem of public order (…) That is where it should be The protocol is very precise, establishing how the force is proportional, under what circumstances it must react and in what way ”, said Gómez.
“The proposal of the National Government was too vague, we made several proposals and the request to the magistrate is to give us a longer time to work on this protocol ”, which would be a period of 60 days, said the secretary.
The district official was emphatic in saying that “nothing does more harm to social protest, which is mostly peaceful, than expressions of violence within,” and that is what they are working on in the protocols to isolate and punish those responsible. of those moles.
He also stressed that “We cannot face the protest as a problem of public order, we cannot fall into the error that any expression of protest is violent. Of In fact, in Bogotá, around 97% of all democratic expression of protest takes place in a peaceful manner ”.
That is why the District has considered that “the proposal of the National Government to prohibit the use of paints, hoods, a policy becomes problematic”.
“It cannot be compared to the fact that anyone who covers their face automatically is going to commit an act of violence, that any person who wears paint for their face or to make a campaign will automatically damage a public infrastructure,” he said.
That point “is the subject of discussion, we do not agree,” added Gomez.
And he stressed that the Mayor of Claudia Lopez consider that in “the right to protest cannot prescribe rules of conduct ”to the protesters.
“In times of peace, to face situations of public order with civil society, when a crime occurs, an abuse of authority, a civil instance must be resorted to,” he concluded.
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