Uribe is worse. Colombian opposition leaves debate

Miguel Uribe Turbay has been operated again and his state is “extremely critical.” Party bench went to the family.

The opposition party bench Colombia Democratic Center withdrew This Monday of plenary From the Senate to accompany the family of the presidential candidate Miguel Uribe Turbaywhose state is “Extremely critical” after new surgery.

“We, from the Democratic Center bench, meeting what the country begins to know, that unfortunately the situation of our colleague is extremely critical, we have no way to be here right now and Let’s go to the clinic”Senator Carlos Meisel said during the plenary session, which discussed a reform of the labor laws submitted by President Gustavo Petro.

Minutes earlier, the Santa Fe Foundation, where Uribe Turbay has been hospitalized since June 7, said that the senator’s state of health went from critic to “extremely critical” due to a edema cerebral, Following the second surgery to which it was submitted on Monday.

The medical center reported that the 39 -year -old politician, a member of the right -wing party Democratic, has a “Intracerebral hemorrhage difficult to control”.

Uribe Turbay was shot twice on the head and once in the left leg during a campaign rally in Bogota ten days ago and was again underwent emergency surgery on Monday after detected “acute intracerebral hemorrhage,” according to doctors.

“The patient’s state is, therefore, extreme gravity ”, according to the statement.

The aggressor, according to the Colombian Attorney’s Office, was a adolescent, Captured shortly after the attack, which in the meantime declared innocent in court.

In the context of labor reform, a group of people gathered this morning at Plaza Bolívar, in Bogota, in a concentration organized by the workers centers and supported by Petro, to support their work reform and ask the Senate to take advantage of the original text.

Petro considers that the version now presented to the upper camera is a Diluted version of the original. Therefore, the leftist president signed last week a controversial decree, calling a referendum on his original proposal for August 7 and warned that he will only go back if the Senate approves the text approved by the House of Representatives.