After the onslaught of President Gustavo Petro from the Plaza de Bolívar against several policies of Álvaro Uribe’s administration, the former president responded through an extensive statement on his social networks, where he defended the measures taken by your government in economic, social and security matters.
Uribe presented more than 30 points in which he began by questioning the reforms proposed by the current government, which he considered harmful to the country. “The labor reform, similar to what is happening in Argentina, produces panic in investment and discourages the creation of formal jobs. Every new job will be a lawsuit. It adds to the Government’s decisions and reforms that are taking the economy into a tailspin.“, said.
The ex-president He also denied that his administration’s policies represented “slavery.” and stated that, on the contrary, they would have given a boost to the economy.
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“Our Government’s Labor Reform helped Colombia double its hotels, restaurants, hospitals, stores, etc. All these investments created formal jobs. We reduced surcharges but they were not eliminated. Overtime was never reduced. With contributions from employers, we created the Sena Entrepreneurship Fund to finance the entrepreneurship projects of their students with capital resources.“, accurate.
Regarding the health sector, the head of the Democratic Center He reiterated his criticism of the decisions that Petro has made, which he considers are generating an explicit crisis.
“Law 100 created a Health System that has allowed 98% of Colombians to enroll. It fully subsidizes the health of 23 million low-income citizens. The Government has suffocated the System and is determined to turn it into an official monopoly. We Colombians will be left with cotton and merthiolate health as in communist countries. Instead of improving the System, they destroy it,” he said.
On the other hand, the former senator also came out in defense of his controversial democratic security policy and of the actions it took to respond to reports of extrajudicial executions or false positives.
“The mistreatment of the False Positives is repeated against me, it is ignored that I diligently separated 27 high commanders, despite other actions. I have consistently maintained my defense, without asking for solidarity, despite the fact that it was a Government with so many hierarchical levels, whose owners knew my honesty.”he added.
Uribe also referred to Petro’s harsh questions against former presidents Alfonso López Michelsen and Julio César Turbay, which he described as “mistreatment.” “The silence of the dead needs the civil courage of the living. I remember the generous cooperation of former President Turbay, then director of Liberalism, so that the peace process with the M19 was successful“, accurate.
Finally, The former president reacted to the breaking of diplomatic relations with Israel, expressing that he does not share that decision. “It hurts to break relations with Israel as it would if they were broken with Palestine. We must stand up to avoid the Constitutional breakdown from the street harangue,” he concluded.
