He former director of the Administrative Department of the Presidency of the Republic (Dapre), Jorge Rojaswho resigned on Wednesday at office, said Thursday that in the government of President Gustavo Petro there are difficulties, but there are no fractures after the chaotic Council of Ministers last Tuesday.
“I don’t think fractionation is a word. There are difficulties, who says that there are not in this government tries to hide the inocative“Rojas said, one of the people closest to Petro, in an interview with Caracol Radio.
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Rojas announced on February 5 his resignation in the midst of the crisis caused by the Tuesday televised Council of Television Ministers, in which the Vice President and Minister of Equality, France Márquez, and other senior officials criticized Petro for some of her decisions.
Specifically, they claimed the president for the appointment, the same Tuesday, as head of the presidential office of the controversial exembajador Armando Benedettiaccused of corruption, and for the power accumulated by Laura SarabiaNew Chancellor and considered Petro’s right hand.
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Jorge Rojas
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According to Rojas, who before arriving at Danpre was ambassador to Brussels and Vice Chancellor, said that “It is not easy to be an official in a government that intends a line of change in a country that during 200 years traveled the political inertia of bipartisanship“
“We need the government to join around the president to avoid these subdivisions“said Rojas, who praised Petro’s decision to transmit on television a Council of Ministers in which he was going to ask for accounts from his cabinet, but added that he would have liked the session to have prepared better.
Precipitous resignation
On his resignation, he said that, although he was only one week in office, I had exposed Petro the need to reform the DaPredepartment that manages the administrative part of the presidency, and that the events of Tuesday anticipated it.
(You can read: Armando Benedetti, in the opinion before the Supreme Court of course influence peddling).
According to Rojas, “When the designation of the Office of the Office was presented“, Position given to Benedetti without their functions being clear, he made the decision to resign, convinced that the most important thing is”Preserve the country’s institutionality“
“We started working that reform, but finally those facts precipitated“said the former official, who said he informed Petro that he”I had no more space in the DaPre” and “I didn’t want to appear as confronting or disputing power“With the new designated.
Jorge Rojas Rodríguez
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“There is a time when one has to give up for principles, by conviction, by ethics. One does not have to be afraid of giving up, it is an ethical imperative always“, said.
In addition to the director of the DaPre, This Wednesday presented his resignation by the Minister of Cultures, Juan David Correa.
He Interior Minister Juan Fernando Cristohe proposed the resignation of the entire cabinet for considering it “untenable“After the controversial Council of Ministers, but he himself has not submitted his resignation or manifest himself over the crisis.
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