Petro gives Ricardo Bonilla a boost: ‘he is the victim of another trap’

After María Alejandra Benavides, former advisor to the Minister of Finance and Public Credit, Ricardo Bonillaensured that the head of the portfolio would have been aware of all the acts of corruption that occurred in the National Unit for Disaster Risk Management (UNGRD) and bribes to congressmen to approve credits to the State coffers, the President Gustavo Petro He spoke about the topic on his social networks.

In an extensive publication on social network X, the head of state assured that Bonilla’s work has been key in “difficult times for public finances, due to the attempted fiscal drowning built by the opposition“.

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Later, Petro assured that the Minhacienda is a victim of “another trap: the one that is built between the neoliberal concept of the fiscal framework and the extortionate attitude of members of parliament who ask for indicative quotas in exchange for approving credits that do not go to public investment for either the rich or the poor, but simply for pay Duque’s debts, getting into debt again, that is, with ‘roll over’ operations“.

This, according to the president, “which was the daily life of the finance ministers, and was not investigated before, becomes a crime now; by virtue of corruption: they transform the victim into the perpetrator“.

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‘Pay debts with income’

In his publication on social networks, Petro assured that he has not been pay the country’s debts with income well “These do not exist due to the fall of the tax reform and the 2023 advances decreed by the previous Minhacienda, plus the unconsulted payment of the treasury to Ecopetrol’s debt, thus “realizing” gasoline subsidies to the middle and upper class“.

That is why the head of state mentioned that, for it to be possible to make these payments, the new financing law must be approved. He also took the opportunity to throw a dart at President of the Senate, Efraín Cepeda.

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“Paying debt with income and reducing debt now implies the financing law, and the acceptance of Roll Over. By refusing to do so and sabotaging it, the parliamentarians who follow Cepeda, the conservative president of the Senate, take us head-on and with our eyes open, to the ‘default’: cessation of payments. Being able to avoid it, the opposition takes us to the ‘default’, just to see if we lose the 2026 elections. They do not care about the well-being of the people“, he stated.

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