Minute by minute of the first health reform debate

At this time begins the first debate on health reform in the Seventh Committee of the House of Representatives.

Follow the minute by minute:

At 2:50 in the afternoon, Carolina Corcho, the Minister of Health, arrived at the Commission premises.

Around 3:00 pm the roll call began and the reading of the agenda began. Once there was a quorum, the presentations proceeded.

The representations of the parties look like this in the Chamber: there are 4 representatives from the Historical Pact, 1 from Comunes, 2 from the peace seats, 2 from the Green Party, 2 from Radical Change, 2 from the Democratic Center, 2 from the Party of ‘ the U’, 2 from the Conservative and 4 from the Liberal party.

At this time, the impediments of congressmen who state they have conflicts of interest to decide on the project are being voted on.

At 3:50 pm the recusals began to be read.

While the process is due to start in Congress, President Gustavo Petro published a tweet in which he told the parties that not all of their proposals can be accepted.

“All the proposals cannot be accepted because it returns us to a world where public money is managed by private individuals who do business with it and with the health of Colombians.“, the message reads.

4:22 pm The reading of the negative paper presented by Juan Felipe Corzo, from the Centro Demcrático party, and Betsy Pérez, from Cambio Radica, begins. This presentation asks that the project be archived.

4:49 pm there is a 10-minute break to solve the technical problems in the venue and that they can continue with the intervention of the negative speakers.

5:22 pm The debate started again.

5:34 pm A motion to adjourn debate was denied. With the above, the discussion continues.

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