Colombia's Referendum Push: Shortcuts, Populism, and Legislative Tensions

“Do you agree to promote job stability through indefinite term contracts as a general rule?” he proposes asking the government in the popular consultation that he has raised to revive his intentions to reform Colombia’s labor system. It is one of the 12 questions that the executive plans to bring to the polls, as he has revealed this Tuesday, so that citizens decide whether the state should make them a reality. Like most proposals, it has the po…

The Colombian government published on Tuesday the twelve questions that it will present to the Senate on May 1 to ask for the acceptance of a popular consultation in order to obtain the approval of the stagnant reforms in Congress.

Colombia's Referendum Push: Shortcuts, Populism, and Legislative Tensions

Colombian President Gustavo Petro's government intends to force through twelve stalled reforms by submitting them to a popular referendum, sidestepping congressional debate. While these social proposals reflect high public appeal, critics warn they weaken democratic safeguards and embolden populist impulses. The post Colombia’s Referendum Push: Shortcuts, Populism, and Legislative Tensions appeared first on LatinAmerican Post.

Petro proposes a popular consultation as a way to change, but governing by shortcuts can weaken the democracy he claims to want to transform The article Petro's authoritarianism disguised as popular will was originally published in Las2orillas. Copyrights Las2orillas.co

“Do you agree that the day’s work lasts for a maximum of 8 hours?”: with a popular consultation, Colombian President Gustavo Petro wants to submit to the citizens’ approval his left-wing reforms rejected by Congress. On Tuesday, the president presented the 12 questions he wants to bring to the electoral process, crossed out as obvious and populist by the opposition. What is the consultation? Petro’s process seeks the support of Colombians to ref…

These are the 12 questions of the popular consultation promoted by the Petro government On Tuesday, Interior Ministers Armando Benedetti and Labor, Antonio Sanguino, presented to the country the questionnaire of the popular consultation with which, under the thesis of giving oxygen to their sunken labor reform, wants to measure strength in [...] La entrada Colombia The government presented the 12 questions of the popular consultation that will …