The Colombian government formalized on April 22 the questionnaire of questions that will be part of the popular consultation on the labor reform that will be delivered to the Colombian Senate next May 1 for discussion and voting. Our correspondent Hernan Tobar tells us the details. teleSUR
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00:00The Colombian government formalized on April 22 the questionnaire of questions that will be part of the popular consultation on the labor reform that will be delivered to the Colombian Senate next May 1st for discussion and voting.
00:15Our correspondent Hernán Tobar tells us the details.
00:17The Colombian government made official the 12 questions that will be part of the popular consultation on the labor reform that was rejected in the Colombian Congress.
00:30Vindicating workers' rights and recovering the lost legitimacy are some of the elements included in the questions that were read by the Minister of Labor.
00:37Do you agree that the workday should last a maximum of 8 hours and should be between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m.? Yes or no?
00:52Secondly, do you agree that a 100% surcharge should be paid for work on a Sunday or holiday rest day? Yes or no?
01:02Thirdly, do you agree that micro, small and medium productive enterprises, preferably associative, should receive preferential rates and incentives for their productive projects? Yes or no?
01:22The Minister of the Interior, who also attended this announcement, recalled the motivations that drove the first president of Colombia
01:31to seek solutions to seek solutions to the legislative blockage that prevented the advancement and discussion of transcendental reforms that were part of the political project with which Gustavo Petro was elected.
01:44It all starts because some people who did not have to sign the report signed in denying the debate, as I had never seen before in the Congress of the Republic.
01:52That day, the President of the Republic decides to go to the people to make a consultation on the labor reform.
02:02There is a sentence.
02:07The number 180 of the year 94 of the Constitutional Court that says that when there is a conflict between the legislature and the executive,
02:17it is settled by a consultation, it is settled by a consultation.
02:28Now it will be the legislators composing the Senate who will have to determine in plenary in a maximum of 30 days their endorsement regarding the questions formulated.
02:36For their approval, 55 votes are required for a total of 108 senators, and the consultation can be carried out.
02:42We hope that the Senate does not interfere in this popular consultation.
02:52Once the Senate approves within the next four months, the registry has to set a date to hold the elections and people have to vote yes or no to each of the 12 questions.
03:02The votes are counted individually question by question.
03:04Today, the popular consultation is a mandate of the people.
03:13Therefore, the Senate of the Republic has to comply with the popular mandate as it is stated in the political constitution of Colombia.
03:19A referendum is the result of a popular mandate.
03:22Therefore, what it has to do is to give it the necessary procedures so that these questions are formalized and carried out.
03:27The Colombian president announced that on May 1st, he himself will submit the questionnaire of the popular consultation on labor reform to the presidency of the Senate,
03:41so that it may begin its discussion and processing.
03:44Hernán DarĂo Tobar, Gaitán Telesur, Bogotá, Colombia.