The proposal of the Petro Constituent Assembly takes the pulse of the mobilizations. The debate on an unlikely assembly is aimed at reviving popular support for President Gustavo Petro.
“Only if the people abandon their Government can change stop,” he stated the day he socialized the project, before a crowd in the Plaza de Armas. The president warned of an alleged institutional rupture, arguing that the then attorney general Francisco Barbosa was forging a strategy to seek his fall.