Catherine Juvinao Clavijo, better known as Cathy Juvinao, congressman of the Green Alliance, spoke with the debate, of the week. He did it to analyze the government crisis on behalf of the Council of Ministers that undressed how fractionated the president’s government is Gustavo Petro.
“We are facing a paradoxical situation where I believe, certainly, that the victory of Armando Benedetti is equivalent to the defeat of Gustavo Petro and his government. The more they screw Benedetti, the more Petro he is absolutely imprisoned and captured by Benedetti, who knows what, hopefully one day this country finds out what he has, what is the information so powerful he has, it means, to the same Time, the failure of the first progressive left project of Colombia, ”said the congresswoman, who said she supported President Petro and then regretted.
According to Juvinao, President Petro wants to have with Benedetti all possible ways to gain votes in the Congress elections and to pay the way in the face of the electoral contest in Colombia, in 2026. “So that the bandola of allies of allies arms . By bringing Benedetti, Petro says: ‘I Claudico to the promise of transformation that I made to this nation, I give up the promise of transforming politics.’ It was allowed to consume for corruption, equal to other officials who always criticized, ”said the representative to the Chamber.
“I believe that the Colombian people are not going to do it twice Gustavo Petro. He already did it once and in no way will he do it twice. Hopefully the punishment at the polls is overwhelming, ”added Juvinao. The truth, the congresswoman said, is that President Petro abused the concept of “pluralism” to associate with everything she criticized.
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The president of ColombiaGustavo Petro, announced on Sunday that he asked his ministers and other senior officials to make their positions available, in the middle of a deep division of his cabinet. The order takes place after a scandalous meeting on Tuesday of more than five hours that was televised live, in which Petro rebuked almost all his ministers for lack of advances in fulfilling commitments to citizens. “I have requested protocol resignation to ministers, ministers and directors of administrative departments. There will be some changes in the Cabinet to achieve greater compliance in the program ordered by the people, ”Petro wrote on Sunday in his social network X.
The crisis was unusual during the unusual Council of Ministers on Tuesday, February 4, where some officials, including the vice president and also Minister of Equality, France Márquez, took the opportunity to express to Petro his rejection for the appointment of Armando Benedetti as head of dispatch, and Laura Sarabia as Chancellor.
Old Data De Petro’s allies told him in front of the cameras that Benedetti and Sarabia are far from the progressive project that won the elections in 2022, and have accused them of hindering communication between them and the president. Benedetti, whose political roots are on the shore opposite to the Petro project, is being investigated for alleged irregularities in the financing of the presidential campaign and faces a complaint for gender violence. Today he manages the president’s agenda.
Sarabia, a young woman who has ascended meorically in the government occupying several high positionswas splashed in the investigation of the largest corruption scandal in the government for the diversion of public funds and was involved in a case for alleged illegal listening against his nanny. He assumed the Foreign Ministry in the midst of a momentary diplomatic crisis with the Government of Donald Trump after Petro refused to receive an American plane with Colombian deportees.
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Benedetti and Sarabia, who already worked together before adhering to Petro’s presidential campaign, are two of the president’s greatest confidence, but unlike most of his cabinet, they are not left -wing militants. “Neither the Foreign Affairs nor the current headquarters of Cabinet are in the hands of this project, they are in the hands of the opposite of this project,” Muhamad criticized in her speech Muhamad, a minister who acquired great international relevance in the search for Petro of a Protagonic role in global climate diplomacy.
The official was host at the end of 2024 of the United Nations Cop-16 Biodiversity Conference that took place in Cali (Southwest), and is indicated by analysts as the possible successor of Petro’s political project, once he leaves The power in 2026.
The political shaking also occurs when there are ministers who assumed their positions just weeks ago, such as Chancellor Laura Sarabia; the Minister of Finance, Diego Guevara; that of the ICT, Belfor García, and the transport, María Fernanda Rojas. The live broadcast of the Council of Ministers confirmed several political quarrels and divisions within the government, which now will concentrate completely on the fulfillment of the program, “Petro insisted on Sunday with his message in X.
