President Gustavo Petro surprised in the last hours when he announced that this Thursday, February 27, an event will be held at the Delia Zapata Theater, in which he will present his new cabinet and will possess Armando Benedetti, which will officially become Minister of the Interior.
The changes that the Head of State has made and will unleashed a great controversy, especially the appointment of the former ambassador who has been involved in several scandals.
Some political voices spoke in De Y Hardly criticized the decisions made by the Head of State. Julio César Triana, representative to the Chamber for Radical Change, said The Government is alliating with the sectors that at the time did not show their best face.
“The presentation of the Cabinet by Petro is nothing other than Colombia’s left negotiating with the political class of the country that he denounced, criticized and mistreated in the past,” he said.
The congressman said that really This is a cabinet with “political interests” And with this decision, according to him, Petro completely forgot and left aside the speech that led millions of Colombians to support him and he arrived at the Presidency of the Republic.
“Petro always questioned the political parties, but today we will see the photography of a government negotiating with the parties and the politicians of the Congress, to guarantee medium governance,” he said.
Triana said that this decision was very “late” from the first president and made it clear that Today he is thinking about what will be the next presidential campaign. “There, the Government will see that many of those sectors who look today as partners will begin to distance themselves,” he said.
“Today is a photograph that shows that the leftist government, which questioned politics, is concentrated in doing business and agreements with this same policy ”, added.
Speaking directly about the vice president France Márquez, the representative indicated that what is happening has to fill with a lot of “unhappiness” to the also minister of equality, remembering the struggles he has maintained and in which he has faced the ‘old foxes’ of Colombian politics.
“The awards he received were for being the social leader who opposed everything he is witnessing. What we can say with today’s photo is that those struggles on the left, those speeches of so severe questions to the political class, failed, ”he said.
Triana warned that President Petro’s government will end up full of politicians who at the time unleashed him so much anger.
Even Juan Fernando Espinal, representative of the Democratic Center, went further and He talked about the “petromemelada”: “We see how Petro will present to all Colombians the new jam brand.”
“Petro is making practical decisions from the political point of view, because he is thinking about the electoral contest, to continue his failed project in the Casa de Nariño and the Congress of the Republic,” he added.
