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This Monday, just four days before the regular sessions of Congress concludeboth the House of Representatives As the Senate will subject senior officials of the government to motions of censure and political control debates. Government of Gustavo Petro. These are the ministers of Defense, Iván Velásquez, and Health, headed by Guillermo Alfonso Jaramillo.
On the one hand, in the lower house he will be summoned motion of censure Jaramillo, pointed out by the crisis in the teacher health model due to the change implemented on May 1. Behind the summons are groups such as Dignity and Commitment, Oxygen Green, New Liberalism, League of Anti-Corruption Rulers, Green Alliance, Democratic Center and Radical Change.
The system was thrown into chaos in recent weeks when to the Fiduprevisora headquarters on 72nd Street in Bogotá and in several other regions groups of teachers came to protest because they had been asking for your medications and authorizations for services.
“Today we have the motion of censure for expel the Minister of Health, Guillermo Jaramillo, from his positiondue to the very serious implementation crisis of the new health system model of the teachers,” claimed independent representative Jennifer Pedraza (Dignidad).
On the other hand, also in the plenary session of the House, at the initiative of the opposition – headed by the Democratic Center and Radical Change–, was summoned for a motion of censure Minister of Defense, Iván Velásquez, before the public order crisis in regions like the Cauca, the influence of organizations like the Central General Staff and the implementation of the total peace.
Among others, the opposition warns about the persistence of massacres, crimes of social leaders, homicide of peace signatoriesthe expansion of armed groups and cases of forced displacement.
In parallel, it is planned that from 2:00 in the afternoon Velásquez also goes to the Senate plenary sessionwho is summoned to a political control debate in the company of Minister of the Interior, Luis Fernando Velasco, the director of the National Protection Unit, Augusto Rodríguez Ballesteros, and senior officers of the Military forces.
The above, on behalf of the increase in violence in the country, as the opposition claimed. It is also noted by facts of homicide, kidnapping, massacres, extortion, theft and human trafficking, as well as the count of members of the Public Force injured in combat and the numbers of drugs seized.
It is expected that during this week they may be other motions of censure scheduled, among them, against the Minister of Equality, Francia Márquez; the Minister of Mines, Andrés Camacho, and the Minister of the Interior, Luis Fernando Velasco.
