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The motivations for rejecting or supporting López and Cárdenas’ decision to take the rest to which they are entitled by law have been based on two main aspects. One, the permanent commitment that presidents are supposed to have from the first day they take office until the last day they are in office, and this time more because of the difficult health situation that the two capital cities are going through.
The second reason, that it is necessary that a mayors, governor or even the president of the Republic himself, must take time, even if it is part of vacation, to continue fulfilling their function. The former president of the United States, Barack Obama, was even recalled, who in his first term argued that he took the vacation period to rest his memory and body to continue fulfilling the responsibilities that his position requires.
However, in the Colombian controversy, the voices of criticism seem to weigh more than those of support. This Monday, for example, the representative to the Chamber of Uribism, Edward Rodríguez, requested the immediate return of Mayor López and does so to resign.
“I ask for the good of the citizens who live in Bogotá, that Mayor Claudia López assume her responsibilities, return to the city and resign, giving way to new elections because it is undeniable that the city was too big for her,” the congressman declared.
The mayor of the country’s capital has been on vacation since December 31 and is being replaced by her Secretary of Government, Luis Ernesto Gómez, who is the one who has had to lead the meetings with the national government for the adoption of the new sanitary measures due to the contagions of the pandemic. López’s vacancy will run until Monday, January 11.
However, despite the fact that he is not in formal exercise of the position, López (who is on vacation in Costa Rica with his wife, Senator Angélica Lozano), was reporting these measures from his social media accounts on Sunday, despite the fact that Gómez is the mayor in property at the time.
One more position that questioned the capital’s president was made by the director of the Red de Veedurías Ciudadanas, Pablo Bustos, who in his very particular style said that he will make a virtual serenade to López so that he returns.
“The Red de Veedurías Ciudadanas invites the major serenade to welcome Claudia López on her international vacation, it will include topics such as” Back, return to your quarantine again “,” But I’m still the Queen “,” Gift of Kings ” the city at its most critical moment, ”said Bustos in a scathing tone.
The questions also fall against the mayor of Bucaramanga, Juan Carlos Cárdenas, who is on vacation from December 30 to January 25, and is being replaced by the Secretary of the Interior, José David Cavanzo.
The Cárdenas vacation was criticized, among others, by the former mayoral candidate, Sergio Muñoz, who considered that “the social and economic instability produced by the pandemic is fueled in Bucaramanga by last-minute measures and without metropolitan consensus. You don’t play games with citizens. Juan Carlos Cárdenas, a bad time to go on vacation ”.
From the Council of Bucaramanga, the lobbyist Carlos Felipe Parra, said that in the middle of the pandemic the president should not leave when perhaps more decisions should be made in favor of the Bumangues.
In the Congress of the Republic a bill was processed which regulated the right that the President of the Republic and senior officials of popular election have and must take for their vacations, but it did not prosper in its process.
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