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These are some of the names of the congressmen who seek to extend the government of President Duque for two more years. Representatives of the Conservative Party are the authors of the initiative.
The bill based in the Chamber and that seeks the specific extension of the mandate of President Iván Duque Márquez, among other officials, was signed by about thirty congressmen who consider that the proposal is viable.
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With the help of other congressmen and various congressional advisers, The viewer He tried to decipher several of the signatures that appear in the filed document. Among the signatories there is a bulk of the Conservative Party. The first one that appears on the paper is the representative of that party Juan Carlos Rivera, however, there are almost all political specters related to the Government and sectors that today consider themselves independent, such as the Liberal Party.
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These are some of the names that signed the initiative that has generated a real controversy and massive rejection from various sectors of Congress, including Uribe.
-Juan Carlos Rivera (Conservative)
-Buenaventura León (Conservative)
-Luis Fernando Gómez Betancourt (Democratic Center)
-Nidia Marcela Osorio (Curator)
-Félix Chica (Conservative)
-Alonso del rio (U Party)
-Mónica Valencia (U Party)
-Felipe Muñoz (Conservative)
-Juan Diego Echavarría (Liberal)
-Hernán Estupiñán (Liberal)
-Teresa Enríquez Rosero (U Party)
-Carlos Julio Bonilla (Liberal)
-Milene Jarava Díaz (U Party)
-Armando Zabaraín (Conservative)
-José Eliecer Salazar (U Party)
-Camilo Arango (Radical Change)
-Liliana Benavides (Curator)
-José Gabriel Amar (Curator)
-Modesto Aguilera (Radical Change)
-Franklin del Cristo Lozano (Citizen Option)
-Salim Villamil Quessep (Radical change)
Five representatives of the Conservative Party are the authors of the initiative and who this afternoon in plenary session of the Chamber moved the document to collect the signatures. Félix Chica, blue representative, confirmed this information to this newspaper and insisted that, although he is just going to serve his first four-year term as a congressman in that corporation, unifying the regional mandates, the Presidency and others is a discussion that, , is in arrears.
“What you have to do is socialize and notice the benefits of the project. This discussion must have taken place a long time ago. It is my first term in the chamber, but I think that this debate should take place at some point because it is something that the territorial entities have been looking for for years, “he said. He added that the issue takes on special relevance due to the economic crisis that the pandemic has unleashed.
Although Chica warned that he has not spoken directly with Fedemunicipios, he commented that the proposal does have the permission of that organization and that other parliamentarians, especially from the First Commission, have spoken with their directors. In addition, he assured that they have not talked with the Government or with the Ministry of the Interior, but that it is important to do so soon, even if the Executive has expressed that it is not interested in leveraging a project that extends Duque’s term. “Mininterior has not contacted us and we have not contacted them. We hope that after Easter week we will generate dialogue tables ”, he said.
Regarding the initiative filed, the representative Juan Carlos Rivera, who heads the list of signatories, pointed out to The viewer that he considered that the proposal was consistent with the reality of the pandemic and that it deserved to be debated. “That the plans of the mayors and governors are consistent with the governments and not have to adjust it when it comes a year and a half later,” he said.
According to Rivera, it is not necessarily that this should happen in the next elections, however, the project clearly says that the extension of the presidential term would be that of the president who came to power in June 2018, that is, Iván Duque Márquez.
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