Colombia's president says country will vote on constituent assembly next year

Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro said that his government will be voting on a constituent assembly in next year’s elections. In a post on social media platform X, Petro said that the congressional approval of a historic labor reform on Friday was due to the mobilization of the masses. [ . . . ] The Senate’s fierce opposition to a widely supported labor reform has shown “who is with” the people and “those who insults and condemn them, those who forbid them to speak. Now that popular knowledge must be expressed where the people are king, at the ballot box,” Petro added. For this reason, said the president, the government plans to convene a national constituent assembly that would be called during the same elections that will elect a new Congress and a successor to Petro.
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