The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Martha Carvajalino, spoke out this Friday on the decision of the Constitutional Court that declared unconstitutional numeral 6, paragraph 3, of article 61 of Law 2294 of 2023 (by means of which the National Development Plan is established), which referred to the processes of Agrarian Reform, related to the recovery of unlawfully occupied wastelands, national boundaries and agrarian extinction.
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On the decision of the high court, Minister Carvajalino expressed her concern about the ruling and called on the Congress of the Republic to advance the process of the Agrarian and Rural Jurisdiction in the next legislature.
“We need the Agrarian Jurisdiction to be implemented so that these processes are decided in the instance that the Constitutional Court has defined today. Suspending the agrarian processes is suspending the possibility of feeding the National Land Fund, and with it, the fulfillment of the first point of the Final Peace Agreement.”held.
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Martha Carvajalino, new Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development.
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Likewise, Carvajalino emphasized that the National Government will insist on proposing the necessary initiatives, before bodies such as the Congress of the Republic, so that there is a land administration adjusted to the principles of the agrarian regime and fair to the peasantry, and as contemplated in the Final Agreement, signed in 2016.
(Besides: The Congress that the National Government will meet with the new legislature).
“We want the peasantry to count on this Government to defend the necessary roads and make the countryside a just and peaceful countryside; a countryside that transforms Colombia into an agro-food power,” the minister concluded.
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