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After more than two months of being in house arrest, former President Álvaro Uribe regained his freedom and spoke harshly again on different issues in the country.
The first words of the former president after the judicial decision were given this holiday Monday in the middle of a statement, which Uribe himself read, and which has several points of reflection on different issues.
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Uribe remained detained in the middle of an investigation against him for his alleged relationship with witness tampering. A few weeks ago, the ex-president resigned from Congress and his process passed to the Attorney General’s Office, which, like his defense, requested his release.
On his return to the ‘political arena’, Uribe, head of the Democratic Center, pronounced five key phrases:
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‘Watch out for 22’
One of the phrases that most caught the observers’ attention was the one with which Uribe closed his statement: “Beware of 22. For the defense of freedom and democracy, until the end,” the ex-president wrote.
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With these words, he seems to be referring to the 2022 elections, in which there will be a renewal of Congress and the successor of President Iván Duque will be elected.
So far there are several names ringing to reach the House of Nariño, among which is that of the former presidential candidate and leftist senator Gustavo Petro, who, for the Uribistas, represents a socialist model in the country.
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Alternatives ‘to the risk of the socialist’
Precisely on the socialist model, former President Uribe proposes to advance “in initiatives of social progress that are the alternative to socialist risk, which aims to replicate the failure of Venezuela and Nicaragua.”
“To the confiscations of socialism, its taxes and suffocating restrictions, which inhibit creativity, let’s oppose with more security, more companies that offer more opportunities, more social cohesion, more education, more entrepreneurship and more remuneration,” Uribe proposed.
Referendum
As EL TIEMPO reported a few months ago, the proposal for a referendum continues to be in the orbit of the Uribistas and this was mentioned by the head of the Democratic Center.
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In the statement, Uribe asks to think about a referendum that “reduces Congress and the bureaucracy, adopts an apex norm for the dome of justice, guarantees solidarity income to the poorest, and confirms the seizure of the drug without criminalizing the consumer” .
With this recourse, according to Uribe, it would seek to repeal the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) and confer “guarantees to the members of the Armed Forces” and “also to those demobilized in good faith.”
Repeal of the JEP
The creation of this justice of the peace seems to remain on the ex-president’s radar and he mentions it punctually in another of the points of his communication after recovering his freedom.
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“We must insist on the repeal of the JEP and the reform of the Havana agreements, saving respect and support for those reinserted in good faith,” said Uribe, who affirmed that “without these reforms it will be more difficult to reach agreements with other criminal groups like the ELN ”.
Uribismo has been a harsh critic of the transitional justice derived from the peace agreement between the previous government and the FARC and has proposed – without success – different reforms to some of its aspects.
We must insist on the repeal of the JEP and on the reform of the Havana agreements, saving respect and support for those reinserted in good faith
Social reforms
A fifth key point in Uribe’s statement has to do with his party, the Democratic Center, and with some reforms that have been proposed from that political sector.
“We will insist, through our colleagues from the Democratic Center and other parties, on points on the legislative agenda that include the reduction of the working day and the solidarity bonus for children from lower-income homes,” said the former president.
Some of these issues are already rolling in Congress and their approval is in the hands of the political parties.
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