The president said that the priority must be executing social programs regardless of who does.
Hard scolding.
After a session of almost six hours, the first council of ministers that was transmitted in real time to the country was advanced, In the middle of a day full of grabs and claims to the president for the appointments of Foreign Minister Laura Sarabia and the chief of Cabinet Armando Benedetti.
“So here we are rehearsing a true exercise of sectarianism contrary to our ideas. The sectarians cannot be here because they will not understand the people, So if we are going to make sects and entangle the president in the sect, I do escape there, I fly from the meeting. Unfortunately, this conversation derived when we had to go to the decrees of internal shock, but that is due to a spirit of sect that does not go with me, because my only function here, given the popular vote, is that the program that the people chose the people Apply, point, Sim import who applies it, white, black, indigenous, liberal, leftist, whatever, but what is measured here is the application of the program, not sectarianism, ”said the head of state.
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And is that the pronouncement of the president It occurred after a series of claims and fights between officials, including vice president France Márquez, the Minister of Environment, Susana Muhammad and the National Planning Directors, Alexander López and Social Prosperity, Gustavo Bolívar, among others.
“That feeling that France expresses today and that Susana expresses today, not only is two president, we have all told you too, That is, Armando Benedetti was my partner in Congress and Laura Sarabia I met her in the campaign, but they do not represent us in this project (…) We cannot share that in such strategic spaces for our project there are no men and women who have played a lifetime in this project to represent that ideology and that political position that weOthers have, ”said Alexander López, national planning director.
“For his part, Gustavo Bolívar, director of Social Prosperity, also made questions, a fact that was immediately refuted by President Gustavo Petro, who defended the Foreign Minister, Laura Sarabia and her chief of cabinet, Armando Benedetti.
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“I want to sympathize with my two companions in the sense that both Laura and Armando Benedetti, although they have been important in this project, They should occupy other less important positions, “Bolívar said to what the president replied:” I do not get the woman or the man, I know that there are candidates to be candidates but the decision is made, which is free and personal. It is a public official until the last day when the resignation occurs or until when it is exercised and immediately afterwards it is a candidate, ”said the Head of State.
On this tense council of ministers, Laura Sarabia said: “The Council of Ministers is the instance to define how to comply with Colombians and Colombians. “Today we did not do it and blur this space. It’s a night to reflect. ”
About what this transmission was, Senator María Fernanda Cabal said that the law was violated because these high -level meetings cannot be public.
“This national shame was executed by ignoring what Law 63 of 1923 says that in its article 9 states that the sessions of the Council of Ministers as an advisory body are absolutely reserved,” the congresswoman trinked.
Source: Integrated information system
