President Gustavo Petro questioned the request of several sectors to suspend the process of the reforms in the Congress before the alleged payment to the presidents of the Senate and the House of Representatives, as well as congressmen, to approve social reforms.
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And he added: “This government has not bought nor will it buy congressmen with either public or private money.”
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Photo:César Melgarejo. EL TIEMPO – Senate Press
“The Government’s pension reform has to fall, it has to sink. It is stained by the most rampant corruption. They used La Guajira only to campaign and then looted it as they promised never to do. They raised awareness with the hunger of the children and with the hope of having drinking water,” said Senator David Luna, from Cambio Radical.
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“I call on Congressmen from other parties who reject the corruption with which they are processing reforms. Let’s unite and prevent debates in which Government projects are going to be discussed,” commented, for his part, the Uribista representative Hernán Cadavid.
From right to the left Alfonso Prada, Minister of the Interior; Gregorio Eljach, secretary of the Senate; President Gustavo Petro; and the Minister of Labor,
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But the Government does not have time. As President Petro said, If there is no progress in the discussion of the pension reform in the following days, it will collapse due to lack of processing.
The project must pass two debates in the House of Representatives before June 20.
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