In the House of Representatives were a legislative act project with which they seek to stop the presidential trips.
Through a legislative act project, from the House of Representatives they seek to regulate the international departures of the President of the Republic.
In the House of Representatives, the members of the Bank of the Democratic Center, lead a project of legislative act through which They intend to regulate the trips of the President of the Republic abroadto reduce the expenses that they generate and, in addition, ask for reports on the achievements obtained at each output.
According to Congressman Jhon Jairo Berrio, co -author of the initiative, The articles establishes “that the president can make seven trips, without convenient abroad, in a legislative period, But, if it exceeds the seventh trip, that is, to number eight, you must inform the Congress of the Republic what is the reason for the trip. ”
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However, The project does not remain alone in the argumentation of the reason for the exit, The document, based in the General Secretariat of the House of Representatives, also intends that the Head of State deliver detailed reports on the achievements obtained during each visit, in order to identify the benefits that his trips generate to the country.
“We consider that with so many problems this country has, the President of the Republic cannot become a traveling agent. There are more than two million dollars that the current president has spent on those international trips. Then we believe that this must be regulated so that our next presidents, when they exceed the number of trips that are in this legislative act, have to resort to Congress, ”said representative Hugo Danilo Lozano.
Although parliamentarians say that the legislative act project is not customized to the current president Gustavo Petro, and They warn that it conforms to the president who is in turn in the house of Nariño, They were emphatic in warning that a clear example to implement regulation is what has happened in the last three years.
“Now, if what you want to look at is specifically the issue of President Gustavo Petro, The reality is that he has made 67 trips, in these three years he has been in the POder. When I say he has made 67 trips abroad, it means that he has made a trip abroad every 15 days. We are talking about each trip, it is an average of three days, that during this period he has been for three years, he has been traveling seven months, ”according to the representative of the Democratic Center.
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The initiative had already been presented in previous legislatures by the members of the party, however, it has not received support in the Legislative.
Source: Integrated information system
