Petro promises reform of public services during rally in Bogotá

The president of Colombia, Gustavo Pedroassured this Wednesday that he will present to Congress a project to reform public services to, together with the others that are already in the legislative process, achieve peace and social justice in the country.

Petro addressed a crowd gathered at the Bolivar Squarein the center of Bogotáresponding to the Government’s call to support the defense of life and reforms, and composed mainly of indigenous peoples, workers and peasants.

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“Let’s present the reform to public services Colombia. The laws in force today that created public services placed the entrepreneur in a privileged place but left the user on the street.”, he stated.

According to Petro, with the current model “Users have no rights to the public service” why “Rates are set depending on the profitability of some entrepreneurs“, but your government’s intention is”vary this”.

“Public service must have the user at the center of its heart“to assure you”the population the basic minimum electrical light, potable water It is Sewerage”, he indicated.

This reform will be added to that of health”as a universal right”; work, so that “in Colombia there is decent work”; the educational, “which aims to enable young people to enter university“, and the pension, for”that the old man and woman can have soup (…) and a pension allowance that allows them to have the affection of their family, not to die alone”.

At that moment, the president mentioned the singer Shakiraof whom he said this with “The boss”, his new single with the group Governed Force“hit the spot”when talking about labor exploitation.

popular support

The president, who was constantly applauded by around 22 thousand people who, according to City Hall, attended Plaza de Bolívar, said that today there were mobilizations in support of his government in “around one hundred municipalities” from the country.

The crowd gathered in Bogotá constantly encouraged the president with the refrain “Petro, friend, the people are with you”, especially when he referred to the people as the basis of popularity which, he said, remains intact, and when he criticized polls that show the opposite.

“Let us hope that another progressive Government succeeds us (…) to continue the path we are following and deepen it“, said the president, who assured that he does not intend to remain in power because he does not like the Narino Palaceheadquarters of the Executive, which he defined as “a palace, cold, frozen and ugly”.

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According to Petro, “Democracy is not a statue or a stone, but a movement” and that is why your Government is committed to achieving the proposed social changes.

“In all these reforms there is social justice. I am convinced that we have violence because we are deeply unequal, the fourth most unequal country on planet Earth. We are terribly unequal as a society, the distance between those who have more and those who have less is enormous”, he expressed.

These inequalities, he added, caused “O violencehe drug trafficking it’s him rise of guerrillas”, therefore its objective is to achieve social justice to achieve peace.

Source: Elcomercio

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