Three years of Gustavo Petro: the good, the bad and the ugly, according to political sectors

This August 7, three years of the government of President Gustavo Petro are completed and from the Congress of the Republic various sectors are taking stock of the agent’s management to identify achievements, failures and challenges for the remainder.

The opposition and the independents ensure that the results are very bad, especially in security, health and economy issues.

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Liberal Senator Mauricio Gómez said that “73% of the country is in the hands of the Gulf clan, the dissidents of the FARC and the ELN, said by the Ombudsman’s Office. More than 36,000 closed health services, a housing deficit of -45% in VIS housing, minus 200,000 jobs, coverage deficit in Icetex 80% for lack of resource funding, the worst execution of the last 22 years. ”

The conservative senator Germán Blanco questioned the policy of ‘total peace’, saying that it has only served to strengthen the actions of illegal armed groups in all regions of the country.

“There is no ‘total peace’ here and we can never talk about real peace. He was missing because he filled with gifts with the people who commit crimes, while they presume to sit at the dialogue tables with the national government. The public force is demoralizedthere are many state gaps in the territory and is delivering many prerogatives in exchange for anything other than their own ego, when the State and citizens are needing the public force to be strengthened in the territories and that tranquility recovers, ”he said.

The Senator of the Ciro Ramírez Democratic Center He warned that President Petro’s balance in the management of the country’s finances is very bad. “Petro has led us to the highest debt in the history of this country, even higher than the pandemic,” said.

“It could be said that Petro was worse than the pandemic, or we could call him petropandemia, which has led us to the highest deficit of the last 120 years since his measurement. The highest deficit is that he spends more than he receives,” he said.

Nevertheless, There are others like Senator Ariel Ávilawho warn that the balance for the government is bittersweet, since there have been good and bad things in these three years.

Ávila said that it has been the good, the bad and the ugly of this administration. “The good thing is the issue of unemployment, whose rate fell to 8.7, the lowest in 23 years, the controlled inflation of 4.7, the productivity of the field and the payment of the external debt. The bad, the corruption scandals of the Risk Management Unit, very complicated this change of cabinet, more than 40 ministers in three years, it is impossible to maintain a public policy. And the ugly, The corruption scandals of his family, the security issue that came out of his hands, and these levels of political confrontation so terrible” said.

For the historical pact, there are many good things that must be highlighted, but the most important thing has been that the labor reform has been able to get ahead to recover lost rights from workers, Like pension reform To ensure that more people access a retirement.

Senator Martha Peralta He affirmed that “these were the two great social conquests, the reforms of change, but there were also compliance with the people and the National Development Plan for which the President was elected.”

However, he assures that in the remaining year of government it is still pending to carry out the health reform and that will be the main challenge. “We have pending that this semester we can carry out the health reform, I think that attending to the crisis that the system is going to be important to fulfill people, ”he said.

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The political analyst Jairo Libreros forecasts That what comes to President Petro, especially in legislative matters, will not be very encouraging.

“And in this last legislature, its three flagship projects are under reserved prognosis. On the one hand, the health reform does not have the necessary votes to be approved in the seventh commission of the Senate. On the other side, The filed bill for submission to justice shipwrecked without the corresponding presentation. And finally, the announced tax reform will run the same fate of the last financing bill, will be archived, ”he said

This last year that begins for the Head of State will be crucial in political matters, because it will be defined if the government can finish carrying out the social reforms and the change it promised during the 2022 campaign.