From the National Youth Council they lost their patience with the government of President Gustavo Petro, They ensure that they have presented breaches and no official shows them their faces.
In the week, members of the National Youth Council spoke about it.
According to Elizabeth Salinas, National Minister of Youth through Medellín, stressed that the image of ‘is sought’ with the objective of calling the attention of the national government.
The young woman explained that last weekend there was a meeting in Bogotá in which student leaders throughout the country were present, to try to make a joint agenda with the national government, but that It was not possible.
“We are surprised that one day before or the same day we were young in Bogotá, we have the news, that finally the agenda could not be arranged; we had no project, or plan, for that week we were there in the city. We young people also call to interlocut our agendas and bring to the territory the processes of the national level. We also need a political will from the administration to be able to execute our processes and projects nationwide ”Said Salinas in
For his part, Daniel González, National Minister of Youth for Bogotá, He stressed that the national government is not asking “a random space, or favor.”
“We have found quite large institutional silenceand not only nationwide, but within local and territorial administrations. I am completely sure that governments, not only the president, but the mayors and governors, usually have that abandonment, usually leave youth, such as the last resort and space. And we are clear that youth, not only placed the president, but we are also for very large things as political actors within the country, ”González said.
Therefore, González was emphatic in saying that, his feeling, is that they always end up leaving them on the side.
“There will always be an interest on the part of the institutions and the politicians themselves, about youth. That is not something new. They have always seen us as the luggage loads, those who organize the chairs, those that distribute the flyers, those that help to mobilize; But in the end, they always leave us aside and we always become the last between the government’s agendas”, Said González in
Meanwhile, Juan Vélez, spokesman for the National Youth Platform, said they hardly find national government personnel who listen to them and have the willingness to agree. He also clarified that, what they were doing as student leaders, was not a political act.
“It has not been something only of this government. Even, within this national government we have had the opportunity to be heard, because before there was not even the possibility of interlocuting with the ministerial instances. So, to make it clear so that it is not misunderstood that it is a political act what we are doing at this time of the call to Petro, because it is the head of the national government, ”said Vélez.
