‘Decadence’ and criticism of Sarabia and Benedetti, reactions to the Council of Ministers

The cOnso de Minisros From this Tuesday, February 4, broadcast by presidential address, gave clear signs of how the environment is in the high government, because, in addition to the breaches referenced live by the President Gustavo Petro In the current administration, clear disagreements could be seen in some determinations taken by the Head of State.

Likewise, as the first president said in his first intervention, hope to repeat this exercise, which he presented as a transparency exercise, every time possible. This has not happened before in the political history of the country.

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After finishing the meeting, which lasted just over six hours, Laura Sarabia, Minister of Foreign Affairs and one of the most criticized figures in the sessionhe said that the Board was totally disturbed from its goal.

“Each minister has a responsibility, and the Council of Ministers is the instance to define how to fulfill Colombians and Colombians. Today we did not do it and blur this space“Sarabia said in his message, to which he added:”It’s a night to reflect“

Other officials and former officials also commented on what happened at this meeting. One of them was Alejandro Gaviria, former Minister of Education of Petroand that whose appointment was qualified by the president as “The worst mistake I made as president“

In the social network X, Gaviria shared a clip of the Council and said that this was a “Staging for Petro, an instrument of the cult of your personality“

María Fernanda Cabal, Senator of the Democratic Centerhe said that the Head of State, with the Transmission the Councils of Ministers on National Television, “intends to submit to hours and hours of scandals and stabs between each other“

(Further: Departures, advice of televised ministers and other changes that would come for the government).

“Petro assaults the programming of national television. They cheated with the announcement that it would be a presidential speech and what they transmitted was the decline of characters that do not know what to do with Colombia“He mentioned.

On the other hand, the Senator of the Historical Pact, Iván Cepedaspoke specifically about the interventions of Jorge Rojas, outgoing director of the DaPreof the Vice President France Márquez and other officials present at the Council, in which they defended the political project of the current president.

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“Fully support for Jorge Rojas, the vice president, the ministers and the ministers, as well as the high government officials, who are defending our political project with strength“He said.

And he added: “The problem is not sectarianism; Many have worked and achieved the alliances that this government have made possible, and we have insisted, even satiety, about the need to build a great national agreement. The real problem is to protect the opportunism and corruption project“

About the last Council of Ministers also said Álvaro Leyva, former government former governmentwho said he has “Rigorous silence seeing from distance the slow sinking of his government project. I intended to guide it through the mechanism within my reach. He can’t make me a single claim“

“It hurts me. Believe me to face the raw truth is fed up, difficult, very painful but necessary. A state of decomposition is breathed. I do not invent anything. Clear example, yesterday’s cruel television and the signaling made to some people“He added, also mentioning his disagreement with the appointments of Laura Sarabia and Armando Benedetti as Foreign Minister and Office Chief, respectively.

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