Petro compares himself to Don Quixote and calls for change in the world because "we are on the brink of becoming extinct"

MADRID, 3 May. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has compared himself to "a Quixote" whose only goal has been to "walk to undo injustices" while warning that the world faces extinction unless the reality of the climate emergency.

Before deputies and senators, among whom there was no representative of Vox since those of Santiago Abascal have chosen to leave the chamber before his speech, the Colombian president has stressed that, like the character of Cervantes, he has also been branded crazy.

The one who is for now the first leftist president of Colombia has recognized that it generates discussion and also "the attack of those who do not want changes" because they believe that "the world is fine like this", but at the same time it also arouses hope. "And I'm afraid of not being able to fulfill them", he has acknowledged.

Petro, who has been received at the doors of the Congress of Deputies by its president, Meritxell Batet, and by the president of the Senate, Ander Gil, has defended that the main responsibility of current politicians is to bet on change based on science , since "Humanity is in danger".

"We are on the verge of becoming extinct or changing," he stressed, accepting that for this reason he is sometimes called "apocalyptic." Likewise, he has defended that one of the greatest riches of Humanity is diversity.