In statements released in this capital, but offered from the United Arab Emirates capital, where the president is on an official visit, he affirmed that the idea is to remove people with electoral pretensions.
It is not healthy to combine electoral aspirations and, at the same time, public administration, neither one nor the other is done’, said the head of state. He also asserted that from now on all ministerial councils will be broadcast.
The Colombian people have the right to see how their goods are administered, their money, how the public policy that is built between governments is in reality, if it benefits the people or not, how we are willing that, to the extent that there is not any twisted process, the people can see how the State is inside’, he declared.
When asked if he would include in his cabinet people of ideologies different from his own, he answered that he was elected as governor in 2022 ‘by a kind of broad front’.
He also said that he hopes that the 2026 political project will mark ‘a deepening or a greater program than the current government, in search of a more egalitarian, more democratic Colombia’.
The resignations of Petro’s ministers continue today in Colombia after the president asked his entire team to resign last Sunday.
The most recent is that of the Defense Minister, Ivan Velasquez, who asked to leave his post irrevocably.
Velasquez was the last of the ministers remaining in the government team since August 2022, when the president took office.
Besides him, the Minister of Labor, Gloria Ines Ramirez; that of Environment, Susana Muhamad and that of Interior, Juan Fernando Cristo, also abdicated irrevocably.
In a protocol manner, that is to say that those who aspire to keep their appointment, were the Foreign Minister, Laura Sarabia; the Minister of Mines and Energy, Andres Camacho; the Minister of Justice, Angela Maria Buitrago; the Minister of Agriculture, Martha Carvajalino; the Minister of Education, Daniel Rojas; and the Minister of Finance, Diego Guevara.
Petro is on an official visit to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, from today until tomorrow to participate in the World Government Summit 2025, according to the Presidency.
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