The Vice President France Márquez recently spoke about his role in the government of the President Gustavo Petro and how he has faced the threats against him since he arrived at the Executiveits management and the tensions that exist inside this first national left administration.
In dialogue with the informants, Márquez referred to how he had to face the issue of their safety and how this has affected the image that many of her citizens had: “Me They had put some explosives on the road for my house And the president wrote to me and told me, ‘you have to walk in helicopters’. And I told him, ‘President, but that is not very risky?’ He told me, ‘you have to use state tools’”
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As explained by the vice president, transport in this device uses it only for security reasons, not for pleasure, since, in fact, he has vertigo: “They ride me in the helicopter and take me there to Dapa Cerquita there to the house and land there. People then start watching an apparatus of those that I think had never gone there, they start landing there, they begin to make videos, to record me. I do not do this for vanity. I want those who know me know that I suffer from vertigo”
Criticism in his life, during these three years of government, have not gone unnoticed: “And there the narrative that I already bolted because I am mounted on a helicopter. I danced it. My niece the song loves”
Gustavo Petro and France Márquez.
Milton Díaz. Time
Changes in your family life
Márquez said that when he stated his desire to campaign he received teasing: “When I started saying that I’m going to throw myself into the presidency, people made fun of me. ‘To the presidency of what? Of the Community Action Board? ‘ And I ‘no, to the presidency of Colombia‘”
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In addition, he pointed out that his family has suffered the consequences of his arrival to the Executive, and that, even his parent has claimed the change of life, because they had to move from their home in Suárez (Cauca): “When they rent that house, then they begin to say that I have bought a house of 5,000 million pesos and all that And half of the salary had to pay the house, but I said, I do it because it touched me at that time also tell my mother to come from Suarez. ”
“I didn’t think he was going out of his Emberracada house either. He started treating me badly and told me, I didn’t send her to get into that. ‘ He still tells me, ‘My life changed me and he made me a hell because you got into that.’ Then it has been painful”He added.
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The children of the vice president have also been victims of the accusations: “And seeing all those attacks in social networks hurts. They are not happy, my children are not very happy“But not only them, but also some of their sisters have had to hide their kinship.”I have sisters who work in family houses and treat them badly. They have had to refuse and say ‘I don’t know her’. To take care of yourself, it has been painful for my family”
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Learning in the Executive have also been significant, but does not ignore that there are things that do not work well: “I know how the State works. I know how investment works, I know how the opposition works too. So it is an important learning. I feel there is frustration. I think there is a lot of institutional bureaucracy, But one cannot pass those steps because this system is made”
Márquez talked about the inconvenience that arose inside the government, especially with former chancellor Laura Sarabia: “My discussions with Laura Sarabia were about that, because she was the director of the DaPrethen she had to support me to move forward. I felt that it was a work, which put obstacles to me, I did not have an ally to advance in creating an institution”
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France argued that as the Ministry of Equality lacked a budget, a headquarters or personnel, it was at his request to President Petro who began to manage that: “And I started telling the president, ‘President, I feel they are blocking me. Without a team, I can’t advance. ‘ I spent calling Laura, I need to help me with the teams, I need her to publish the resumes, I need to have a team to advance and said yes, but it didn’t happen”
France Márquez is the first Afro Vice President of Colombia. He works with President Petro.
AFP
“When we present the project in Congress With message and urgency by the president, the Minister of Finance at the time did not present or presented a concept of ambiguous fiscal viability And that made the opposition use it to demand the ministry and that is why we are now in this situation that the Constitutional Court said that this planning principle was violated and that the project has to be submitted again”, Added the Caucana leader.
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On the other hand, the vice president expressed her discomfort, after the president referred to the black population: “For me, that I have lived racism and that I know what racism means, Well, it was painful, having accompanied him to mobilize the Afro -population”
So things, Márquez was emphatic that he does not seek re -election and that he will end the 4 years of government for which they chose them. “I do not lose the hope that this country can live tasty, in peace,” he said.
Valentina Delgadillo Abello
Portfolio journalist
