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October 11, 2020 – 3:39 pm
Newsroom of El País – Colprensa
The Secretary of the Senate of the Republic reported this Sunday that the debate on political control and motion of censure against the Minister of Defense, Carlos Holmes Trujillo, will be held in a blended or mixed manner on Thursday, October 22.
The debate, promoted by senators Jorge Enrique Robledo and Roy Barreras, joins the one held last week against the official, which will be voted on this Tuesday, October 13, which raised nonconformity in the senators, who had asked to postpone that vote.
Senators Robledo and Barreras had sent him a letter, in which they asked him to postpone that vote because that same day, in the plenary session of the Senate, the motion of censure to Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo and a debate on the deterioration of security will be carried out. in the country.
You can read: Chamber ratifies that vote of censure motion to Ministry of Defense will be on Tuesday
According to the president of the Chamber, Germán Blanco, this “is absolutely respectful of the Senate of the Republic, but obviously it is not an appendix to it. Their autonomy and independence do not depend on senators in particular, especially if we are complying with the provisions of the Constitution and the Law ”.
We announce that the debate on political control and the motion of censure promoted by the senators @JERobledo Y @RoyBarreras respectively, against the @mindefense@CarlosHolmesTru It will be held in a blended or mixed manner next Thursday, October 22: Gregorio Eljach Pacheco.
– SecretariatSenado 🇨🇴 (@SecreSenado) October 11, 2020
Another complication that came to the debate on the motion of censure in the last hours, according to information revealed by Semana Magazine, is that Minister Trujillo would be thinking of resigning from his post this week, in order to launch his presidential candidacy for 2022 .
Regarding this, Senator Roy Barreras, hours after the news was known, stated through his Twitter account that “The” little game “of a Minister who, while the massacres continue and no one controls the territory, announces presidential candidacies:”.
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