2023-11-15 07:01:00
Representative David Racero, one of the most visible leaders of the Historical Pact, was accused of doing an alleged bureaucratic favor to benefit a close relative. This is about the hiring that Racero made, when he was president of the House of Representatives, of three people who ended up contributing money to the campaign that his uncle José Luis Mayorca ran for the Governor of Cesar.
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The complaint was made by the elected councilor of Bogotá, Daniel Briceño, of the Democratic Center, who displayed on social networks the contracts that three individuals had in the Chamber who later contributed money to Mayorca’s campaign, a fact that he assured was not coincidental. as the congressman from the Historical Pact tried to argue.
Racero defended that there were no irregularities because the contracts he gave to those three people, while he was president of the Chamber, were executed before the electoral campaign for the regional elections on October 29 began. Furthermore, he distanced himself from his uncle, despite the fact that at the beginning of this year both were involved in another controversy in that same corporation.
Three contractors entangle Racero
The people related to the complaint were Liliam María Torres Felizola, Saira Medina Trujillo and María Eloisa Araujo, three women who landed as contributors to the campaign of Racero’s uncle, after finishing their contracts in Congress.
From Torres Felizola, two contracts amounting to 54.3 million pesos appear on the Secop II public procurement platform with the Presidency of the Chamber. According to Briceño, the contractor who worked for Mayorca at the National Oncology Center was in charge of doing citizen pedagogy “for speaking in favor of the Petro government’s reforms in Valledupar,” a city of interest to Racero’s maternal uncle.
For his part, Medina Trujillo had a contract worth 10.3 million pesos for four months for the purpose of communicating with citizens through the WhatsApp messaging application and email, channels from which he had to manage requests and comments to the Presidency of the Chamber.
While Araújo Morón received a contract with a duration of five months for 30.2 million pesos, to provide economic policy support to the legislative processes.
“What would David Racero from a few years ago say if some right-wing politician had given contracts to three people who later appeared as the only donors to the campaign of that politician’s uncle? It would be a scandal,” said councilor-elect Briceño.
When questioned, Racero said that he did not participate in his uncle’s campaign for the Governorship of Cesar and argued that he was not even a candidate for the Historical Pact. “I have no political, economic or judicial relationship with Mr. Mayorca,” the representative responded.
Although he tried to distance himself from his family member, it is not the first time that Racero has come out to explain his relationship with his uncle. Last March, Mayorca appeared with Racero at a meeting on health reform in which the former Ministers of the Interior, Alfonso Prada, were also present; and Salud, Carolina Chorcho, as well as the heads of the Liberal (César Gaviria), Conservative (Efraín Cepeda) and La U (Dilian Francisca Toro) parties.
The controversy arose because the parliamentarian’s uncle (see To learn more) was part of the discussion of the official health reform, despite the fact that he was investigated for alleged illegal acts related to the management of health resources as a health worker. EPS Prestasalud, which was later renamed Medimás.
As happened in the case of the three contracts, Racero ignored the controversy and justified his uncle’s presence by arguing that he went to the meeting because of “his qualities as a doctor specializing in Oncology and knowledge of the health system,” he said.
To find out more: who is José Luis Mayorca, the uncle that David Racero ‘denies’?
Mayorca is an oncologist who has been involved in controversies in the health sector and who has tried to jump, without success, from the private sector to political positions. In 2014 he tried to get to the Senate with the support of the Liberal Party and was close to the Hora Serpa political group and in the recent elections he ran for the Governor of Cesar supported by the Fuerza de la Paz, Roy Barreras’ party, but he only reached 2,390 votes, which placed him eighth.
Regarding his controversies, in addition to the investigation for alleged illegal acts in the management of Prestasalud resources, which later became the liquidated Medimás, clinical oncologist Carlos Eduardo Correa Melo accused Mayorca of owing more than 400 million pesos. to several specialists for the provision of their services for the National Oncology Center.
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