The Controversy over the Draft Decree: Examining the Concerning Impact on Peasant Mobilization and Agrarian Reform

2023-09-08 12:26:48

The controversy over the draft of the decree published by the Ministry of Agriculture with which it seeks to promote peasant mobilization and organization to promote agrarian reform, he continues.

According to a statement from the Attorney General’s Office, said decree generates great concern because “in its recitals it does not refers to the fundamental right of peaceful assembly and protest, provided for in article 37 of the Political Constitution”.

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Likewise, they assert that although the National Government has explained that it is a materialization of the right to peasant organization and mobilization, the draft decree It does not refer to the right of free association, which is stipulated in article 38 of the Constitution.

“For the Attorney General’s Office, the issuance of a decree that exceeds the regulatory power of the Executive is alarming, by regulating, for a specific sector of the Nation, some rights whose nature implies their autonomous exercise and with respect to which the function of the State is limited to guaranteeing its exercise,” reads the document where they reiterate that the cited articles of the Constitution establish the right of citizens to join and form associations freely, for the realization of a common project.

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