Armando Benedetti: “President Petro’s mini-reelection is May Day and in the popular consultation”

The word “reelection” has re-entered the Colombian political debate this Friday, when Interior Minister Armando Benedetti used it to refer to Gustavo Petro’s government strategy to push forward his social reforms. In an intervention at the summit of governors of Yopal (Casanare), the minister of politics said, without further details: “President Petro’s mini-reelection is the First of May, in the march to be made, and in the popular consultation…

The Minister of the Interior, Armando Benedetti, raised concerns that the popular consultation to be held on May 1 will be the “mini-reelection” of President Gustavo Petro, during a meeting with social leaders in Yopal, Casanare. Later, at the governors’ summit and before the press, he clarified that his words were misunderstood and that they did not refer to a presidential reelection, but to the continuity of the government’s social reforms. “T…