The choice of Carlos Camargo as magistrate of the Constitutional Court He still echoes in the national government and this Tuesday the first exit was already known after this defeat of the Gustavo Petro administration.
And this Tuesday, the resignation of the Minister of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT), Julián Molinato whom they asked to deliver the position after his party (of the U) did not support María Patricia Balanta, who was the executive candidate at that bid in the Senate of the Republic.
(Also read: Ministry of ICT claims to have executed 85% of its budget assigned for 2025).
In addition to Molina, the resignation of Antonio Sanguino (work) already Diana Marcela Morales (Commerce, Industry and Tourism)because the sectors that represent (Verde and Liberal Alliance, respectively) would not have supported Balanta, who lost by 21 votes for Camargo, opposition candidate.
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“The government coalition in the Senate is completely remake”Said the president in the social network X, after the election of Camargo.
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“If you are asked for a letter, you have to settle it. But I repeat, ultimately, it will be the president who decides who we continue to accompany him in this task“Sanguino said on Monday afternoon.
However, These would be the only changes in the cabinet and it is expected that this week the head of state decides if other ministers will leave their current position.
Julián Molina was designated as Nuevo Mintic.
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From the U party it was announced that the speakers of the General Budget of the Nation of 2026 They will not attend a meeting convened by the President to discuss initiative, which now has a bad atmosphere in the Legislative for being definanced in 26 billion pesos, which ties to a tax reform, which does not have major support in the Capitol.
(Besides: They open inquiry to minenergy for alleged irregularities in contract with Air-E).
“The decision responds to criteria of legislative autonomy and the need to maintain a technical and plural debate in Congress, without external conditioning. The party reaffirms its commitment to the rigorous analysis of the budget, in defense of citizen interests and fiscal sustainability“They said Clara Luz Roldán and Alexander Vega.
Molina comes out of noise by a bill that, although she speaks of the Internet as a fundamental right, turned on the alarms for an eventual intervention to the country’s media. This initiative, according to a complaint of the Senator of the Democratic Center, Paloma Valenciain pre -election year the national government would be seeking to put pressure on the press.
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Doubts revolve around an article that states that Mintic exercises “Inspection, Surveillance and Control Functions in the Information and Communications Technology sector, including administrative police and possession faculties”
“What does the Government seek by giving the Mintic Faculties of Administrative Police and taking possession of the media six months of the elections? This implies a direct threat to press freedom and an attack on the independence of the media. The worst, the criteria for using that power will be set by the government itself, which is openly unconstitutional. Only Congress can set those parameters”, Asked the presidential senator and candidate.
Similarly, the Molina’s passage through the Mintic was marked by the attempt to take channel 1 to which the National Government sought to leave without effect a concession that has a decade more of validity. That was seen by experts cited by the newspaper El Tiempo as a kind of expropriation.
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