Following his repeated false salt, as his constant re -election orders for him President Gustavo Petrothe Christian pastor Alfredo Saade He was withdrawn from his position as head of dispatch, where he was only a little month of two months.
Saade, however, does not leave the government, Well, he will serve as a new Colombian ambassador to Brazil.
(Further: Alfredo Saade is no longer the chief of Cabinet of President Gustavo Petro).
His departure, however, occurs in the midst of waiting for a decision of the Attorney General’s Office, which would be decisive in the case of the passport, according to the newspaper El Tiempo. The president would have retired from the position once he would have learned that the Public Ministry found merits to get him out of office.
Alfredo Saade
“The Attorney General’s Office had the provisional suspension of Alfredo Saade as head of the dispatch for the possible irregularities in the process for the new contract for the expedition of Passports. Before that happened, it was a matter of hours, President Gustavo Petro decided to get him out of the house of Nariño and send him as an ambassador to Brazil“, says the journalist Ricardo Ospina on social networks.
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It should be remembered that on July 9, the control body announced the beginning of a formal investigation against Saade, as well as to the excazilleres Luis Gilberto Murillo and Laura Sarabia for apparent irregularities in the process for the elaboration of passports.
“In the case of Saade, it was allegedly overreached in the exercise of its functions, having taught orders to officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to rationalize the assignment of appointments for the Passport Expedition”, The Public Ministry reported. Before an imminent suspension, The president would have preferred to change it for charge so that the measure did not take effect.
Attorney General’s Office
This, however, It would be a temporary measurebecause a sanction that would suspend him from exercising public positions would also be a blow to his permanence in the Colombian embassy in the neighboring country. In this way, the Head of State would barely avoid a situation similar to that of Álvaro Leyva, in which he kept him as an active chancellor while he was suspended, leaving Murillo as in charge.
Clues about his departure
This Thursday it was striking that, for the first time, since it came to office, He was not accompanied by the president on his public agenda, in which the armed forces were given honors on the Boyacá bridge. There was not a single sign of the presence of the office chief during the two ceremonies in which Gustavo Petro participated.
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This August 15 was not present at the meeting with the United States Senators Bernie Moreno (Republican) and Rubén Gallego (Democrat)both of Colombian origin, who also attended the funeral of Miguel Uribe Turbay.
Alfredo Saade
In the Casa de Nariño there was already talk of his departure, which was confirmed when his resume appeared on the portal of presidency applicants, which formalized his designation as an ambassador to Brazil.
(You can read: ‘Not once obtained an answer’: President of the Andi questions ‘silence’ of Petro).
Saade, who before the rumors of his possible exit had said that his absence was due to health problems, He spoke shortly after with a trill speaking of his new designation as an ambassadorposition for which he has no experience and for what the State Council has lying more than 45 appointments in the diplomatic service.
“President Gustavo Petro has asked me to be his ambassador to Brazil, with precise instructions to continue building success relations with South America. It was a pleasure to be by his side these two months fulfilling the assigned tasks, which I did with resounding success. I know that this new challenge will also take him to fruition. This is just beginning“The Office Chief Trinated.
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