Petro is looking for an ally in Spain in the face of the climate crisis

"Both we modify or we die.

Petro is looking for an ally in Spain in the face of the climate crisis

"Both we modify or we die." The President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, on an official go to to Spain, yesterday made a vehement attraction from the podium of the Congress of Deputies to fight the local weather crisis, a battle through which he's dedicated and for which he requested the complicity of ' Spain, to guide, from the presidency of the European Union, concrete measures for a technological and political change. "The coverage that's based mostly on science is what known as progressive", he stated.

"We now have a mission, which is to avoid wasting humanity", insisted the Colombian president, who in contrast himself to "a Don Quixote", who has discovered "to undo the darkish". He stated that his message provokes dialogue and "the assault of those that don't want change", just about those that assault him in his nation for selling change and in opposition to the "deniers" of local weather change usually. "Local weather change will not be a faith, it is science", underlined Petro, who additionally stated that, like Cervantes' character, he has been known as loopy.

The Colombian president made his speech from the tribune of the chamber, in entrance of deputies and senators from all of the teams, apart from these from Vox, who left the Chamber earlier than his speech started. Whereas the ultra-right was parsimoniously making its means out, the standing chamber applauded Petro, in an extended ovation that lasted a number of minutes. "In 20 years as a parliamentarian, I had by no means had such applause", he thanked.

The Colombian chief defended the tip of the hydrocarbon business and altering the power mannequin of oil and gasoline to scrub energies: "solar, wind and water". And he marked the July summit between the European Union and the Neighborhood of States of Latin America and the Caribbean (CELAC) as a key date.

Petro arrived in Madrid on Tuesday, however the official agenda began yesterday, when he was obtained with honors on the Royal Palace, as befits a state go to. Together with his spouse, Verónica Alcocer, he arrived on the palace in a Rolls Royce that took them from the El Pardo palace, the place they're staying. Kings Felipe and Letícia welcomed them in a ceremony attended by the President of the Spanish Authorities, Pedro Sánchez, and representatives of the principle State establishments.

On the Congress, Petro was obtained by the president, Meritxell Batet, and the president of the Senate, Ander Gil, and greeted the members of the Bureau of the 2 chambers, the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, deputies and senators and the ministers who attended the occasion. Within the afternoon, the mayor of Madrid, Martínez-Almeida, handed him the important thing to town, in an act that Vox censured whereas calling Petro the "most consultant of narco-dictatorships".

In the present day, Petro meets with Sánchez in Moncloa and concludes a go to centered on bilateral points and on the worldwide agenda, through which the local weather disaster has been very current. Spain is the second largest funding companion in Colombia and, in response to Colombian diplomatic sources, Petro could be very taken with attracting personal funding for the power transition he needs for his nation.

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