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Weekly Report - 12 June 2025 (WR-25-23)

COLOMBIA: Petro takes the plunge

Not even an assassination attempt on one of Colombia’s most prominent opposition politicians could deter President Gustavo Petro from signing a decree to convene a referendum on labour reform. Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay, a presidential aspirant for the right-wing opposition Centro Democrático (CD) in next May’s elections, was shot in the head twice while giving a speech in Bogotá on 7 June and rushed to hospital, where he remains in intensive care. While condemning the attack, Petro dismissed opposition claims that it was the fruit of his increasingly divisive rhetoric. After appearing to moot a truce in his long-running struggle with the senate, which has blocked all attempts by his government to push through a labour reform, he signed a decree calling a referendum on the matter on 11 June amid opposition claims of an attempted coup.

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