Before making your bags to march to Dubai, Colombian president Gustavo Petro requested the resignation of all ministers, ministers and directors of administrative departments. “There will be some changes in the cabinet to achieve greater compliance in the program ordered by the people“, explained through his account in X. From now on, Petro added, the government will concentrate” completely in compliance “of the objectives that took him to the Nariño Palace in 2022.
The situation did not surprise analysts. A few hours before, the Minister of Environment, Susana Muhamad, had presented her resignation, and then her work colleague, Gloria Inés Ramírez.
Petro decided to advance in that direction five days after a controversial advice of televised ministers days in which Colombians could see and listen to what extent the ministerial team was fractured and discontent not only with Lto the owner of exteriors, Laura Sarabia, but with the designation as head of the dispatch of Armando Benedetti, Who had accompanied Petro in his electoral campaign, served as ambassador to Venezuela and lost office in a scandal of sexist violence, among other complaints. His return also caused discomfort at Senator Iván Cepeda, one of the men close to the president and part of the peace negotiating team with the ELN guerrillas. “There are a number of facts that severely question the compatibility of that decision with our political project.”
Interior Minister Juan Fernando Cristo, celebrated the step taken by the Head of State. “It is right when looking for an institutional exit to the crisis. As I raised on Wednesday, it is necessary to be released for government recomposition. “
According to the portal ´The empty chair`, Christ has advanced since last December in a government recomposition project “with the eye on the reluctant benches (parliamentarians) to approve the reforms” promoted by the left.
Criticism
“Petro left 18 months in the house of Nariño and He has decided to start the year looking for guilty for a failure that he already sees“said the Bogota newspaper ´The spectator ‘in its Sunday edition.” With the president there is always someone else to blame: they did not let him do, they did not take the rhythm, they did not know how to recognize the historical moment … for a person for a person That he reached the highest position of the executive branch, is incredible the little ability to lead teams that execute. Months await us of more speeches, more fights and very little change. “The president, added the publication,” curiously “does not find responsible for his transpiés in his two most important alfiles: Benedetti,” accused of the Supreme Court of Justice for Corruption And with several other processes, and Laura Sarabia, an actress in the extortion scandal that Benedetti made public against the house of Nariño. “
In this context, andThe government intends to convene extraordinary sessions in Congress to continue the discussion of health reform. “I had a conversation with the president where I am expressed by the government’s decision to do it next week,” said the head of the House of Representatives. “We are going to attend the president’s call, based on the logic of continuing in a scenario of consensus construction to approve the best health reform, if it is the will of the plenary.”
