Congress declared Colombian President Gustavo Petro persona non grata for his speeches against the police.

Plenary session Congress approved this Friday to declare the president persona non grata Colombia, Gustavo Petro. The reason that prompted the parliamentarians to make such a decision is related to the statements he made against the Peruvian National Police (PNP) in the context of the protests that are taking place in the country.

The proposal was approved by 72 votes to 29 with 7 abstentions after an hour-long parliamentary debate. The initiative first passed through the Commission on Foreign Relations because the foreign affairs president criticized the massive police deployment ahead of calls for marches in central Lima on February 9.

“In Peru, they are marching like Nazis against their own people, violating the American Convention on Human Rights,” the President of Colombia said.
in a speech during the inauguration of the Colombian ambassadors to China, Mexico, Canada and Brazil.

The proposal also calls on the Ministries of the Interior and Foreign Affairs to take the necessary steps to ensure that the President of Colombia “does not enter the country.” The last time Petro was in the country was at a meeting with former President Pedro Castillo at the XXII Andean Presidential Council, held in August last year.

Last December, the plenary session of the Congress approved a proposal that proposed to reject the “permanent and unacceptable” acts of interference in the internal affairs of Peru by the President of Colombia, his Mexican counterpart Andres Manuel López Obrador and other presidents. region of

López Obrador refused to hand over the presidency of Peru

On the other hand, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) refused to hand over the presidency of the Pacific Alliance to Peru, as it should be, considering Dina Boluarte’s government to be “bogus”.

“I’m going to instruct the Foreign Office (SRE) to notify the members of the Rio Group of what we’re doing because I don’t want to hand over (the presidency) to a government that I consider false. Let the members decide the group,” he said at his daily press conference.

The President of Mexico indicated that once the opinion of the Rio Group, a permanent consultative mechanism composed of Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela, is received, he will comply with the relevant decision.

“If they say we are giving up the presidency, we do it. But I’m going to hold consultations, I don’t want to legitimize a coup d’état, it is contrary to freedoms, human rights and undemocratic,” he stressed.