In a new attempt to smooth things over with the Legislature and get the discussion of the 2025 Budget project to move forward in Congress, the National Government met this Wednesday – September 18 – with several members of the economic commissions, in order to socialize the reactivation plan which he has been designing for just over five weeks and hopes to reveal very soon.
The meeting took place at Casa de Nariño and was led by Laura Sarabia, Director of the Administrative Department of the Presidency (Dapre), who stressed to the attendees that the intention of these spaces is to generate an open and proactive dialogue in which all points of view are heard regarding what is needed to move the economy forward in these times of marked slowdown.
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Sources who participated in the meeting told Portafolio that although the issue of the Budget and the need to guarantee the resources requested by the Ministry of Finance, or the financing law that is not very popular in Congress, was not fully addressed, it was mentioned that the reactivation will require investment resources, which will largely come from national accounts.
Likewise, the DAPR reiterated that the reactivation plan will focus on issues such as access to credit, tourism, energy transition and the promotion of the popular economy. It should be remembered that in this regard, a few weeks ago the banks and the Casa de Nariño announced the ‘Pact for Credit’, with which resources will be directed to certain sectors to stimulate growth that goes hand in hand with sustainable development.
Dapre and Congressmen meet to discuss reactivation.
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Senator Angélica Lozano also referred to this meeting and said that it was all part of the follow-up to the six weeks that Laura Sarabia said at the beginning of August that it would take to develop a reactivation plan, in an event to which she even invited businessmen and academics to give their opinions on how to move forward.
“We talk about economic recovery, about how things are going in the regions “And obviously the purpose and conclusion of today’s meeting is to move forward. We will follow up again in six weeks to see how all the issues that were discussed are going,” said Senator Lozano.
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It should be remembered that on August 9, during an event held in Manizales, the Administrative Department of the Presidency said that in six weeks it would have a plan for economic reactivation ready and invited several unions and academic sectors to work together in the search for solutions. That six-week period expires next Friday, September 20.
Opposition will not give in
After the meeting at the Presidency of the Republic, Senator Carlos Meisel said that the opposition is opposed to the budget amount of $523 billion proposed by the National Government and to the idea of imposing more taxes on citizens, although he acknowledged that if this project is not approved, the Government has the right to decree it.
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“We in the Fourth Committee submitted an amount of $499 billion, which was approved by our group, but it was not approved by the others, so it was then sunk,” said the congressman, who in turn maintained that the path to reactivation is to make the country attractive again so that capital returns.
Meisel pointed out that the country needs confidence to boost investment, and that without certainty about the future, citizens will not invest, regardless of the proposals for economic reactivation. Because of this, the opposition asked that the confrontation between the sectors that drive the economy be stopped and that work be done to generate confidence among taxpayers and buyers to ensure the country’s economic stability.
