After request for resignations, changes are expected in Colombia

Bogota, Feb 10 (Prensa Latina) Starting today, several changes are expected in the cabinet of Colombian President Gustavo Petro, after the president's decision to ask for the resignation of his entire team announced the day before.

February 10, 2025
10:20

I have requested the formal resignation of ministers, and directors of administrative departments.

There will be some changes in the cabinet to achieve greater compliance with the program demanded by the people.

The government will concentrate completely on the fulfillment of the program’, wrote yesterday the head of state in his social network X. Petro’s request comes a few days after the Council of Ministers was held, televised live to the whole country, which turned into a self-critical exercise where he informed that, out of 195 commitments made to the citizens during his administration, 146, or 75 percent, have not been fulfilled.

He stressed before his cabinet the need to accelerate works in the areas of transportation, roads, housing, education, foreign affairs and trade, among other sectors.

Later he wrote in his social networks that in the remaining time of his mandate (18 months), he wants a united and transparent government facing the people and with the people.

“I do not want a government with double agendas, but neither of a single color because the people are multicolored. It is the people who are in charge, no one else. The duty is to comply with them,” he wrote.

Following this statement, it was known the resignation of Jorge Rojas as director of the Administrative Department of the Presidency, a position he had held for a week, and also that of the Minister of Cultures, Arts and Knowledge, Juan David Correa.

Similarly, the resignation of the Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, Susana Muhammad, and of the Minister of Labor, Gloria Inés Ramírez, who had been in their respective positions since Petro took office on August 7, 2022, was also made public the day before.

Late in January, Colombia’s Minister of Transportation, Maria Constanza Garcia, who was replaced by Maria Fernanda Rojas, the Minister of Information and Communications Technologies, Mauricio Lizcano, who was replaced by Belfor García, and the Foreign Minister Luis Gilberto Murillo, who was replaced by Laura Sarabia.

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