General Budget of the Nation 2026, approved in the first debate

The joint economic and Chamber economic commissions approved, in the first debate, the general budget of the Nation, After reaching an agreement and giving the green light to the alternative presentation presented by the representative Olga Lucía Velásquez.

The project was composed of 90 articles, and The controversial point that allowed the use of future validity to the government was eliminated. The amount It was cut in $ 10 billionreduction that occurs in the so -called financing law and leaves the PGN at $ 546.9 billion, of which $ 16.9 would leave the tax reform.

“The articles that had to do with The Fonpet, that is, with the Territorial Pension Fund. Because? Because there is a law that is the 2468, law that came out this year and what the budget project brought was to go against some articles that had already been approved in 2468. Then we said, it is completely incoherent to endorse those articles when we approved a law this year in the opposite direction (…) the article of future validity was also eliminated, because it generated many concerns (…) the creation of a fund that was being generated for credit was also eliminated. Because we consider that it was not necessary. An article that established the Faculty was also eliminated, the possibility of crossing between different entities without going through Congress, ”said representative Velásquez.

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For the Senator of the Democratic Center, Ciro Ramírez, although he warned that They have managed to eliminate more than eight articles from the regulatory provisions (…) There were several articles that worried us, even to the real sector of the economy such as the distribution of future validity, some credits requested by the Government, some resources from the Territorial Pension Fund, which the National Government and the Government caught that request for the opposition to eliminate the articles. ”

Position that was ratified by the conservative senator, Efraín Cepeda, by ensuring that the worst stage was for the budget to come out by decree “Because it would be a fiscal dictatorship where Congress is not taken into account for cuts.”

However, there were congressmen, who decided to vote negatively, the alternative presentation, ensuring that they cannot agree with an amount that is definanced in “More than $ 40 billion”as stated by the representative of Radical Change, Mauricio Parodi.

“I do not agree that there is a tax reform to finance a deficit budget, which has also been a government unable to execute the budgets that have been approved here, which are the greatest in the history of Colombia. I do not agree that the fiscal framework be binque”, Concluded Parodi.

Line that followed the parliamentarian of the Green Alliance, Katherine Miranda, warning that he did not support the presentation, because “We cannot allow the National Government of these extraordinary powers that would completely usurpate the Congress of the Republicbut above all, they would put in check validity of future in projects as important as the Toyo tunnel, such as the subway, like the dike channel (…) I really can’t. The liver does not give me, because I do believe that you have to be responsible with the country, because the deficit is not this click of $ 10 billion pesos, it is that the CAF said they are $ 45 billion. ”

Interior Minister Armando Benedetti cataloged as “Lolable “what was done by Congressby approving the first debate the general budget of the nation, and preventing it from being issued by decree.