This Tuesday, the President Gustavo Petro possessed in the house of Nariño to New Labor Minister Antonio Sanguinoand the New Transport Minister, María Fernanda Rojas.
“The renovation of the cabinet begins, which will surely be that of the final phase of the government“The president said during the event in the presidential palace, on the eve of the end of a day in which he also possessed the Brigadier General Carlos Fernando Triana as the new director of the National Police.
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This Tuesday, Antonio Sanguino will take possession as the new Minister of @Mintrabajocol.
Its objective will be to implement the pension reform and continue working to make labor reform reality in Colombia.
These are his commitments as the new government minister of the … pic.twitter.com/epLWQP3D5B
– Colombia Presidency 🇨🇴 (@infoPresidencia) February 18, 2025
Sanguino, former senator and exconcejal, will be the successor of Gloria Inés Ramírezwhile Rojas will assume the position he left María Constanza García.
The president’s message to the new ministers
After the sworn and signing of the act of possession, President Petro gave a speech in which he described as taras of the new ministers of each portfolio.
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“The Minister of Labor corresponds two great reforms (pension and labor), defend them, apply them. Because even within the constitutional norms present and current, changes can be made. They try to stop legislative changes, but the Constitution is clear in which there must be a social state of law“He said about the new Sanguino tasks.
In the end, the Head of State mentioned that 2025 must be the year of the “mobilization“.”Resistance against change is not achieved but mobilizing the people“, said.
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