The National Executive Committee (CEN) of the Colorado Party resolved to “approve” the pronouncement of the Ethics and Political Conduct advisory commission regarding the situation of the former Minister of the Environment, Adrián Peña.
“The opinion has been pronounced after meeting all the formal requirements, it has been made public and its content expresses the thought of this Executive Committee,” says the statement issued after the virtual meeting held this Monday.
The Ethics Commission had suggested a “warning” to the Ciudadanos leader since he lied about his university degree.
It also advised declaring the events “reprehensible”.
The report, signed by the five members of the commission, indicates that Peña engaged in “improper conduct, not expected given his career, capable of affecting the credibility of his personal management.”
He also assured that Peña’s actions have “eventual limited consequences, on the prestige and the party trajectory” and warned “a trait of at least negligence, which enabled him to sustain an assertion about the professional condition, oblivious to reality”.
Peña resigned at the end of January after it became known that he did not have a degree in Business Administration from the Catholic University of Uruguay, a title he held for years.
In a statement after a meeting with the Ciudadanos caucus, Peña announced his resignation.
“The mistake was the one that I recognized, that I regretted and apologized for. It has to do with having lied about that title for a while,” he said in the statement in which he did not accept questions.
