2023-05-17 04:46:41
The departure of the U Party from the Government bench in Congress made official this Tuesday deals another blow to the Executive of President Gustavo Petro, who after losing the support of the Conservative Party in Congress is left without a majority in the Senate and at the mercy of the Liberals in the House of Representatives.
“The decision of the bench was to declare independence, an independence in which we can make decisions without political bias but acting with the same responsibilitythe same decision to study all the projects in depth so that it is the best for Colombians,” the president of the U party, Dilian Francisca Toro, told reporters.
He added that the objective of this decision is “to have independence to be able to assume responsible positions in the face of the good things that arrive and that can have a positive impact on citizens, and also to vote negative on the proposals that we believe will have a positive impact on people “.
The departure of La U from the government coalition is a new blow for the pro-government bench in Congress in a crisis that exploded with the discussion of the health reform, criticized by various sectorsand that it will make it more difficult for the executive branch to approve its ambitious social reforms.
In this sense, Petro is about to lose his majority in Congress after the departure of the conservatives a couple of weeks ago and the U Party, since the liberals – which have a majority in the Lower House and are the second with the most representation in the Alta after the Historic Pact – have not yet defined whether they will continue in the government coalition or declare themselves independent.
GOVERNMENT CRISIS
The departure of the conservatives precisely triggered the restructuring of the ministerial cabinet last month due to the lack of progress in Congress on the controversial health reform, which also caused the departure of the head of that portfolio, Carolina Corcho.
The reform was presented on February 13 and aims to bring health care to all corners of the country and strengthen primary care and disease prevention.
However, this proposal has caused a deep controversy in the country because, according to its critics, it will jeopardize the sustainability of a system that, despite its numerous flaws, works.
This was precisely what caused the departure of the Government, among others the ministers of Transportation Guillermo Reyes, quota of the conservatives, and of Information and Communication Technologies, Sandra Urrutia, who was from the U Party, among others.
With the departure of the conservatives and the U, the The government bench was formed at this time by the ruling coalition Historical Pact; the Alianza Verde party, and Comunes, the movement that emerged from the demobilization of the FARC.
Other minority parties are also part of it, such as the Movimiento Alternativo Indígena y Social (MAIS) and the Movement of Indigenous Authorities of Colombia (AICO), as well as the Alianza Social Independiente (ASI), the Colombian Ecologist Party (PEC) or the Democratic Party. Colombian (PDC).
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