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A acute controversy was presented this Monday at the House of Representatives, just days after controversial approval of the pension reform. Although it was planned that the opposition to advance a motion of censure against him Minister of Health, Guillermo Alfonso Jaramillo, after 4:00 in the afternoon He had not been able to start the discussion.
The reason? A proposal of representative Jhon Fredy Núñez, of the peace seats –backed by official sectors–, in which it is requested repeal the motion of censure against the minister for considering it unfair.
Jaramillo was summoned to the plenary session for his responsibility in the crisis in the teachers’ health model due to the change implemented on May 1. The system reached a chaos in recent weeks when groups of teachers arrived at the Fiduprevisora headquarters on 72nd Street in Bogotá and in several other regions to protest because They had been asking for their medications and authorizations for services for days.
As argued in the controversial proposition, the The owner called to respond to the crisis would not be the Minister of Healthbut the president of Fiduprevisora, Mauricio Marín. “The health of teachers and their beneficiaries is in charge of the National Fund for Social Benefits of Teachers through a state or mixed trust in which the State has more than 90% of capital, which to date is Fiduprevisora, so then the implementation of the new teaching health model It is the direct responsibility of this last entity.”
From the opposition the voices grew louder They drew attention to this attempt to allegedly sabotage the motion of censure. “On Friday they limited the legislative functions of the Chamber ‘pupitreando’ 95 articles with a proposition. Today they want to cancel their political control function conditioning motions of censure to the majority. President Gustavo Petro and his party “they de facto advance their constituent”, claimed representative Andrés Forero (Democratic Center).
“The Government and the Historical Pact They seek to illegally prevent the debate on the motion of censure from taking place to the minister of health for the crisis in service to educators. “They want to apply the same tricks of the pension reform.”said representative Christian Garcés, of the Democratic Center.
After more than two hours of discussion, to listen to congressmen from both sidesfinally the president of the Corporation, Andrés Calle (liberal with Petrist tendency)resolved that the proposal was not appropriate, so He gave way to the motion of censure around 4:10 in the afternoon.
Last Friday a controversial proposition that was accepted by the majority which the government of Gustavo Petro enjoys and which allowed –expressly and without further discussion–the pension reform will pass to presidential sanction.
Taking into account that it was the last debate of the project, the representatives – after discussing and approving the presentation that gave free rein to the initiative – They were obliged to study, analyze and approve the text which was approved by the Senate in its second debate last April. The above, with a view to harmonize the Senate text with the House report.
However, when they were barely examined around five or six articles of the text, a controversial proposition was put to a vote so that what was approved in the Senate would be accepted without further delay. The above, apparently, due to the tight legislative times, taking into account that if the project was not approved before June 20, it would be shelved for a time.
In the controversial proposition it is argued that There was a “rigorous, thoughtful and democratic” debate on the project, ensuring that the text that had been approved by the upper house was known “in depth and in advance.” “We were able to find out about it from the moment it was published in the Congressional Gazette and debate (…) In addition, it was physically delivered to us in our seats, guaranteeing the advertising standard required by the Regulations of Congress and the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court.”
