Supporters of Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro have organized the first community council meetings that seek to muster popular support for a referendum on labor reforms.

Petro called on the people to organize the assemblies after the Senate sunk the referendum in what the government called a fraudulent vote on Thursday.

In the same session, the Senate voted to revive the labor reforms that had been killed by its social policy committee in April.

Cheered on by the president, dozens of supporters of the labor reform organized the first meetings in the cities of Bogota, Medellin and Cartagena over the weekend.

Petro is expected to address tens of thousands of followers in Barranquilla on Tuesday.

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