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Bogota. President Gustavo Petro painted a panorama of sharp confrontation with the standard forces through the remaining two years of his authorities, the vast majority of analysts and native politicians mentioned at the moment after the sturdy speech he gave following the announcement by the Electoral Council that it’s going to examine alleged irregularities within the electoral marketing campaign that led him to the Casa de Nariño.

As soon as the opening of an investigation into alleged violations of marketing campaign financing limits turned identified, Petro advised 1000’s of residents of well-liked neighborhoods within the metropolis of Cartagena that “the coup has begun,” reiterating a warning he has been making for a while. months concerning the existence of plans to forestall him from finishing his time period.

The pinnacle of state attacked the political and financial institution, which he accused of not accepting that “somebody who isn’t one among them, somebody who’s from the folks, has triumphed cleanly within the elections.”

In keeping with Petro, “it’s troublesome for an oligarchy accustomed to bodily exterminating progressive events, as occurred with the Patriotic Union, to just accept peaceable democratic guidelines.”

The president additionally referred to the varied makes an attempt which were made to contain him in acts of corruption and was ironic about it: “I’m not silly sufficient to trade a political undertaking that is filled with hope for the folks for ephemeral wealth.” mentioned.

After which he criticized the questioned Electoral Council, made up principally of delegates from the standard events, declaring that “they declare that the president, regardless of having been elected by the folks, has to cease being so as a result of 4 or 5 corrupt vagabonds from the politicking that is how they need it.”

As a number of analysts had predicted to La Jornada after the demonstrations towards Petro, organized by right-wing forces on the finish of April, the president continued to radicalize his speech with invites to the favored sectors to take to the streets. “If the folks keep at dwelling, they’ll destroy the favored authorities,” he warned.

Spokesmen for the opposition events took benefit of the president’s intervention to warn about Petro’s alleged plans to stay in energy, quoting the ultimate phrase of the presidential speech: “I’ll proceed so far as the folks say. If the folks say: additional forward, I’ll go additional forward. With none worry, with none worry, we are going to go the place the Colombian folks order.”

A bit of greater than two months after reaching the center of his presidential time period, the primary left-wing head of state within the historical past of Colombia, faces a succession of authorized obstacles derived from the present institutional framework, which haven’t solely prevented him from transferring ahead a bundle of social reforms, however they cease tasks and initiatives of the manager.

The latest setback for presidency administration happened this Wednesday, when the Constitutional Court docket declared unlawful the process that gave life to the Ministry of Equality, headed by the vp, Francia Márquez.

Petro concludes this week in Manizales and Pereira a tour of well-liked neighborhoods in a number of cities within the nation, during which he has insisted that solely the facility of the first constituent will have the ability to make it potential for the federal government’s initiatives of change to go ahead.