In the midst of a series of criticisms of the Minister of Mines and Energy Irene Vélez, the Council of State received a lawsuit against her appointment as head of that portfolio. The appeal was filed by the citizen Harold Sua Montaña and through him he indicates that the appointment of Vélez was issued without competition.
(Petro came out in defense of Minminas after his intervention in Congress).
According to Sua, there were irregularities in the installation of the Legislative that forced it to be redone and for that purpose he had filed a tutelage against Congress, but before it was resolved, this body installed Gustavo Petro as President of Colombia.
Three days after his inauguration by Congress, Petro appointed Irene Vélez Torres as Minister of Mines and Energy.
According to the plaintiff, “The alleged irregularities against the development of the inaugural session of the congregational period on July 20, 2022 and the plenary sessions of that same day and on July 21 trigger an invalidity of the acts through which the congress citizens can begin to perform their duties, or failing that, of the members of the Board of Directors of Congress, before whom Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego took office as President of the Republic”.
(Minminas denies Irene Vélez’s lack of requirements to take office).
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For him, Petro could not be sworn in before Congress but had to do so before the Supreme Court. “As long as said objections have not yet taken place, Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego lacks the competence to issue any administrative act, including the one that gave rise to the appointment of the reference.”
(‘Mining titles and acquired rights will be respected’: Minminas).
That is to say, for Sua Petro’s possession before Congress is not valid and, therefore, neither is the appointment that he later made of Vélez.
His appeal reached the Council of State on August 30 and by distribution it fell to Judge Rocío Araújo to initially study whether his claim can be admitted for a substantive study.
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