Gustavo Petro has been president for a month of Colombia, and although the current administration has been working since the first day on the implementation of the government plan, there are still several key files pending, since the president has not appointed several officials.
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This week the President installed the last official of his cabinet, Sandra Milena Urrutiathe holder of the portfolio of Information and Communication Technologies, but there are two positions in the Council of Ministers that remain vacant: the direction of the National Administrative Department of Statistics (Dane) and that of the Department of Social Prosperity (DPS).
Although in the last hours the name of the lawyer Cielo Rusinque has sounded for the DPS, the president has not yet confirmed who will lead the entity. In the case of Dane, after Juan Daniel Oviedo rejected the offer to continue as director of the national statistical authority, it has been directed by Julieth Solano, the deputy director in charge.
The same happens with other state institutions. On the Treasury side, one of the most important cabinets for the government, there are several entities without appointment, as is the case with the Pension and Parafiscal Management Unit (Ugpp), in charge of verifying that companies make the payment of the obligations they have to social security. Currently, Ana María Cadena remains in charge, as director in charge, who comes in that role from the previous government.
The Territorial Development Bank, Findeter, does not currently have a president either, Sandra Gómez, who was its director, he stepped down from the post on August 30, but his replacement has not been named.
In the sector, for now, the financial superintendent, Jorge Castaño, remains in the Financial Superintendence; Other entities for which Petro has not given names are the National Savings Fund (FNA) and the Agrarian Bank.
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And although the name of the former senator of the Democratic Pole, Jaime Dussan, has been sounding like president of Colpensiones, said appointment has not been made official either and the entity is currently in charge of the Vice President of Operations of the Prima Media Regime, Javier Eduardo Guzmán.
Cabinet of Ministers of Gustavo Petro.
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On the other hand, to ProColombia has not yet received the appointment of the new president of the entity, and the same has not happened in INNpulsa, an institution dedicated to accelerating ventures; or in Colombia Productiva, which leads the Productivity Factories program, one of the strategies that the government has said it wants to maintain.
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And among the entities attached to the Ministry of Transport, for example, the National Institute of Roads (Invías) currently has a director in charge, as well as the Civil Aeronautics (Aerocivil), while on the side of the Mines and Energy sector, another central in the energy transition agenda, such as the National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH), or the Mining-Energy Planning Unit (Upme), among others. And it was only yesterday that it was known that the economist Álvaro Pardo will be the new director of the National Mining Agency (ANM).
The Colombian Institute of Family Welfare (Icbf) is another that still does not have a director, and the designations have not arrived at the National Institute for Food and Drug Surveillance (Invima), the Resources Administrator of the General System of Social Security in Health (Adres) and the National Institute of Health ( INS).
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According to Carlos Arias, political analyst and professor of the master’s degree in political communication at U. Externado, “it is serious that the appointments have not yet been made, because these types of public entities are the ones that mark out public resources.”
According to the expert, the fact that there is no head makes the entities work at a different pace, and the autopilot officials, because there are decisions or public policy guidelines that go through the director, and according to Arias, without a head many projects do not advance.
Mauricio Jaramillo Jassir, professor at the Faculty of International, Political and Urban Studies of the U. del Rosario, agrees with this, “the delay that we have seen, may mean that the president has an idea that everything is done with a great consensus. , and that has ended with an indefinite delay, which is harmful anyway because precious time is wasted, but it also has to do with the fact that he may be looking for the right person for those positions.”
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