The senator Humbert of the Street and the representative to the Chamber for Antioquia Daniel Carvalho they declared symbolic independence from the government of Gustavo Petro.
The congressmen’s manifesto came in their own name and while all the political parties and movements represented in Congress present their declaration to the National Electoral Council (CNE) as a government, independence or opposition bench.
Nevertheless, Of the Street and Carvalho they are, if you will, a special case in the plenary session of the legislature because both resigned from the party that had endorsed them for the legislative elections, the Oxygen Greendue to differences with the directive imposed by Íngrid Betancourt.
Thus, while that community sent a declaration to the CNE as an opposition group, the only two congressmen who were elected with their endorsement enjoy, for now, a independence in Congress.
“We ratify a symbolic political position but we do not file it officially because the CNE does not oblige us to do so and the theory of the Statute of Opposition does not contemplate this option either,” they clarified. Of the Street and Carvalho to THE COLOMBIAN.
In other words, the position of independence of congressmen is not legally registered with the electoral authority due to a legal vacuum in the articles that regulated the political demonstrations of the caucuses. And it is that this Statute does not detail the independence of congressmen without a party.
What’s more, in 2018 Gustavo Petro He obtained his seat in the Senate for being the second in the presidential election, but since he participated in that contest for a significant group of citizens at the beginning of the legislature he had no party. Later, Human Colombia obtained legal status.
Even the case of Humberto de la Calle and Daniel Carvalho recalls the precedent of former seandor “Manguito”, Jonatan Tamayo Pérezthat when he resigned from the ASI he continued to legislate.