The Colombian Government will file this Tuesday in the Congress of the Republic a bill with which it seeks to create the ministry of equality, one of the campaign promises of President Gustavo Petro and that will be occupied by Vice President Francia Márquez.
(Ministry of Equality: there is already a draft of the bill).
The filing of the proposal is scheduled for 9:00 am in the Constitution Hall of the National Capitol and then there will be a “cultural and ancestral act”according to the Vice Presidency.
As one of the main campaign promises, Petro and Márquez agreed to form this new portfolio to “assume the biggest challenge that Colombia has: inequality”, the vice president has said on several occasions.
“The vice president has no institutional mandate”but its function is “replace the president in any circumstance that he cannot be present”, Márquez explained on August 13.
(This is the first state policy for gender equality).
“I don’t expect to replace the president,” he continued, insisting that “it is the president who must define what my functions will be within the government.”
That is why Márquez and Petro agreed during the campaign to create a Ministry of Equality, as she herself has ratified, and this step on Tuesday is the first to achieve it.
Precisely, Petro entrusted Márquez with the task of “achieving equity in the regions” and for this he asked to “prioritize public investment where black people live” and “the poor.”
(Francia Márquez, first Afro ‘vice’ and first Minister of Equality).
The president assured on August 27 that for “The poorest regions of Colombia can enjoy a privilege to be able to match them with the other regions of this country”, Investments such as drinking water or higher education should be prioritized in areas “where the black people live, where the poor live”work that should be promoted by the new Ministry.
EFE
