The EL TIEMPO Data Unit was able to determine that the conservative congressman and current president of the Impeachment Commission, Wadith Manzur, was visiting the Casa de Nariño 15 times, at least those recorded. Given the fact that the head of the entity investigating the president was in meetings with the president, he gave his reasons for those meetings.
(You can see: UNGRD: the 15 entries of Wadith Manzur, president of the Commission of Accusations, to the Casa de Nariño)
Manzur assured that his meetings were within the framework of legislative activity and that the vast majority of them were before he was president of the Commission of Accusations. Which, to a large extent, is true, since only two of the 15 recorded encounters took place after assuming the dignity.
However, the records of Casa de Nariño are not complete, since a meeting at the end of November is omitted in which Manzur himself accepted having been with other blue representatives and the president to talk about health reform.
“My functions as a congressman are not only limited to being president of the accusations commission, I also have my legislative functions which makes the relationship with the government normal as a congressman,” Manzur responded to EL TIEMPO.
When asked about the topics he touched on in those meetings before taking over as president of the Commission of Accusations, he responded: “I do not remember exactly the meetings of 2022 and 2023, unfortunately I do not write down those things, but they are most likely topics of bills. , issues of problems in the region or government issues because for much of that period the conservative party was the government party.”
Along these lines, the representative indicated that he is part of the economic commissions and that these meetings should be read in his participation in the budget, the national development plan and other issues within his jurisdiction.
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