The new popular consultation that was presented in the Senate by ministers Armando Benedetti, Antonio Sanguino and Guillermo Jaramillo, contains four questions about health reform.
In de, Several political voices spoke about it.
According to Andrés Forero, representative to the Chamber for the Democratic Center, He considers that the Petro government should not insist more with the popular consultation and, on the contrary, withdraw it from the Congress of the Republic.
In addition, for Congressman Forero, the Minister of Health, Guillermo Jaramillo, did not have the powers to sign the popular consultation, which is why He considers that he overreached in his duties and ended up viciando.
It is noteworthy that Jaramillo has been exercising functions of Minister with presidential commission for the trip of President Gustavo Petro and the Vatican, who separated him from several days.
However, within the tasks assigned to him the decree that left him in charge of the national government This type of preferred powers was not contemplated.
However, Jaramillo filed the new popular consultation with the Senate and not President Petro, as stipulated by the Constitution.
“I believe that the government should withdraw this consultation on behalf of this obvious vice from Mr. Guillermo Alfonso Jaramillo, but I think he will not do it. And in that sense, I think that it can meet again with that same wall And that they will reject it … they may even not even put it on consideration, because it would be vitiated and additionally considered, according to the concept of several ex -speech at the same
For his part, representative Duvalier Sánchez, of the Alianza Verde Party, said the Senate of the Republic, allegedly, He has not acted with conviction against the popular consultation of the Petro government, but, on the contrary, he has done it with calculation.
“They want to entangle discussions, But above all, prevent the citizen from voting freely in a mechanism that is constitutional. Popular consultations do not impose a decision; They allow Colombians to or against them, express themselves at the polls, ”said Sanchez at the beginning of.
Meanwhile, Heraclitus Landínez, representative for the historical pact, stressed that the healthiest thing for democracy is that it occurs again in the Congress of the Republic, a mechanism that is constitutional, as is the popular consultation.
“I think those are the rules of the game established in the Constitution of 91 and in the Fifth Law of 1992 that defines the legislative procedure. That is, we are acting within the framework of the Constitution and the Law, and thus we hope that the Senate particularly acts,” said Landínez in
