In an alocution in the middle of the Council of Ministers This Tuesday, the President Gustavo Petro He spoke, among other things, of several breaches that the current government, according to him, has done regarding what was promised in the campaign.
“There are 195 commitments acquired with the people, of which 146 have not been fulfilled so far. Write. I have them all by ministry. We are servants of the people. Servants of the town“said the head of state.
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Petro mentioned that much of the undeading arises from the educational portfolio: “Education has not turned around the government program so far but to other things“. He also mentioned that his greatest mistake was to put Alejandro Gaviria as an education minister.
Later, he said that Energy Sector has in folder 16 pending projectsmainly related to clean energy, emphasizing the Minister of Mines and Energy, Andrés Camacho.
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“When we see that the transit to clean energy is not fast enough, it is because its main operator, which is ecopetrol, is not doing it quickly“He mentioned, adding his disagreement with ‘fracking’ business signed by Ecopetrol in the United States until 2026.
“Why are we against fracking? Because it is the death of the nature and death of humanity and I want that operation to invest in clean energy in Colombia. That is technically and economically discussed, but it cannot be that we are for death and not for life. Not in this government“He said.
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About the portfolio of defensePetro mentioned that there are 15 breaches of 23 in total. Although he highlighted the increase in salary to the soldiers of the Armed Forces, he made a ‘galon of ears’ to Minister Iván Velásquez
About the transport portfolio, he mentioned that there are 11 breaches, briefly citing the government’s plan regarding this sector: “First is the peasant road, second is the road to La Paz, there are the railways and, of the last, what the previous governments did: the concessions of large tolls, of a large number of lanes, but that only take out Medellín and Bogotá, not even the borders, but where they can import“He said.
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At this point, he also mentioned that things are being done “the other way around“, ensuring that”They have blocked railway studies. (…) What we did in Bogotá Human was doing tram studios in the city, because the companies that were measured in the apps wanted to do them. But Pelañosa does not want trains, wants diesel buses, because it is its business, which has behind the city and does not let it advance“
Finally, on this aspect, he said that these studies are in feasibility stage and that they are in the current folder Governor of Cundinamarca, Jorge Emilio Reywith whom Petro met before the Council of Ministers on Tuesday.
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About the housing portfolio, despite the fact that the president said that this section has met the objectives, he said “work is wrong“
“Housing owes us several things. One is drinking water, which we said was the water revolution, where is it? They let the politicans handle aqueducts, reaching village aqueducts looking for votes and not solutions structural problems of drinking water in Colombia“
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