2023-04-27 15:51:02
The friendship between Gustavo Petro, president of Colombia, and the alliances with traditional parties to form an official coalition that, on paper, would support the reforms proposed by the first left-wing president of this country, has only lasted eight months. Petro has declared a government in emergency after requesting the resignation of seven ministers and changing the portfolio of the director of the Administrative Department of the Presidency. The decision has been made after seeing that the social reforms of change, land, health, pensions and the world of work, all of which were promised by Petro during the presidential campaign, have not advanced in Congress. “I think the government should declare an emergency,” said the president. “It means that teams from Colombia work day and night to lower the price of food, to deliver land to the peasantry. Anyone who is not capable of doing this has no space in our Government, “he added. Related news standard Yes Maduro’s demands hinder the success of the peace conference on Venezuela Dagoberto Escorcia The Chavista government insists on the withdrawal of all sanctions imposed on the country as a condition prior to holding free elections in 2024 Despite the rejection of the presidents of the Conservative Party, the U Party (Union for the People) and the Liberal Party to most of the projects, Petro has invited the construction of a social pact and dialogue to make Colombia a prosperous country. He has done it categorically and radically, as his latest speeches have been that have kept Colombian society on edge: “Two things are missing here, because either we leave the Executive and that the landlords return to govern this country and fill us with false positives and blood – which is the only thing they know how to do – or we make a social pact, not so that the people remain silent or that they applaud the fact that they are excluded or that they applaud that they are not allowed to carry out social reforms. In that speech in which he prioritizes helping the poor, Petro demands that his ministers “heart be in favor of humble people and not simply for earning a salary and commissions, and that they be capable of overcoming the enormous challenges that are demanded of us in the rural countryside. We can’t wait any longer.” The blow on the table that Petro has given was caused by the request of various parties to vote against the health reform and after seeing that the Economic Commissions of Congress had eliminated the article that allowed the purchase of 3 million hectares of land by livestock sector to deliver them to the peasantry, while complying with the first point of the Peace Accords agreed with the FARC. Congress “I don’t understand if the Colombian Congress wants war,” said a defiant Petro. “Congress removes the article that allowed a soft, peaceful negotiation and forces those who have the land to expropriate. How are we going to comply with the Peace Agreement if the legal instruments are severed by the Congress of the Republic contrary to the popularly elected government program?” Petro asked, a question that for the newspaper “El Espectador” has been interpreted as “dangerous simplicity” and that tries to “demonize those who he considers his enemies.” The Colombian president has blamed the presidents of the different parties that formed the Historical Pact coalition that have forced their own congressmen to reject the reforms, especially that of a new health system, under threat of being sanctioned, after the presentation go ahead in a commission of the House of Representatives thanks to the decisive vote of the congressmen of the Liberal Party María Eugenia Lopera and Dolcey Torres. The PL has asked the party’s ethics control commission to open an investigation into Lopera and Torres for supporting the Petro government’s health reform. In his second change of ministers since he took office, Petro has replaced the ministers of Health, Interior, Finance, Science, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), Transportation and the direction of the Administrative Department of the Presidency. The outgoing ministers belonged to the Liberal, Conservative and U parties. The new ones, according to some sources, are closer to the reformist ideas of Gustavo Petro. Last February, cabinet changes occurred in the ministries of Education, Culture and Sports. The break with these parties will leave the Historical Pact, Petro’s party, without a majority in Congress, which will increase doubts about the progress of his projects and reforms. The Historical Pact has 25 senators out of 108, and 33 representatives in the House of 188.
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