BOGOTA: Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Sunday (Feb 9) known as for his ministers and different senior officers to step down, as tensions soared within the authorities days after he lambasted his group on dwell tv.
The demand got here after Petro on Tuesday subjected his cupboard to a five-hour public dressing down on state TV, accusing a number of officers, together with his commerce, training and well being ministers, of falling behind on the supply of key tasks.
“I’ve requested the resignation of ministers and administrators of administrative departments,” Petro posted on social media platform X.
“There will likely be some adjustments within the cupboard to realize better compliance with this system ordered by the folks.”
Earlier Sunday, Colombia’s atmosphere minister Susana Muhamad grew to become the second cupboard member in every week to step down after the contentious assembly, during which Petro mentioned the federal government had been underperforming.
A number of ministers have complained concerning the presence on the assembly of Armando Benedetti, certainly one of Petro’s closest aides, who’s being investigated over unlawful marketing campaign financing through the president’s 2022 election race and who has been accused by his ex-wife of home abuse.
Additionally they expressed disapproval of the appointment as overseas minister of Laura Sarabia, Petro’s scandal-hit former chief of workers, who has had a meteoric rise inside the authorities.
She was implicated in an investigation into the most important corruption scandal within the authorities and was concerned in a case of alleged unlawful wiretapping towards her nanny.
The day after the cupboard assembly, tradition minister Juan David Correa resigned, as did Jorge Rojas, the top of the state company DAPRE, which manages massive quantities of state funds.
Muhamad, who hosted final 12 months’s UN COP16 convention on biodiversity within the metropolis of Cali and was typically considered as a succesful pair of arms within the erratic Petro’s left-wing authorities, was one of many few to earn the president’s reward through the assembly.
