Petro prompts Colombian authorities chaos with demand for resignations | Authorities Information
Petro had lambasted his cupboard on state TV final week and mentioned the federal government was underperforming.
President Gustavo Petro has prompted authorities chaos as he demanded that your entire cupboard ought to resign.
The president referred to as on Sunday for ministers and different senior officers to step down. The transfer got here amid hovering stress after Petro lambasted his staff on reside tv, whereas some members of the federal government have condemned current appointments.
“There shall be some modifications within the cupboard to realize better compliance with this system ordered by the folks,” Petro wrote on social media platform X.
Shortly afterwards, Labour Minister Gloria Ramirez introduced her resignation on social media platform X.
“Politics should proceed with out sectarianism and with out ambiguities,” she mentioned.
Constructing stress
Rigidity has been constructing throughout the authorities within the weeks since Petro appointed some new ministers.
Some within the cupboard have protested, expressing disapproval over the appointment of Laura Sarabia, Petro’s scandal-hit former chief of workers, as overseas minister.
The appointment final month got here as Petro engaged US President Donald Trump in a standoff over migrant deportation flights.
Sarabia has been implicated in a corruption investigation and was additionally concerned in a case of alleged unlawful wiretapping.
The stress solely grew when final week Petro subjected the cupboard to a five-hour public dressing-down reside on state TV.
He accused a number of officers, together with his commerce, training and well being ministers, of falling behind on the supply of key tasks.
‘False tales’
Simply earlier than the president’s name for the cupboard to stop, Susana Muhamad stepped down as setting minister, citing opposition to the appointment of Armando Benedetti to the cupboard.
A number of different ministers have additionally complained concerning the appointment, with Benedetti going through allegations of violence in opposition to girls and affect peddling.
A key aide to Petro, Benedetti has mentioned false tales had been being informed about him.
Apart from the labour and setting minister, Tradition Minister Juan David Correa and Jorge Rojas, the top of the state company DAPRE, which manages massive quantities of state funds, have additionally resigned amid the continued disaster.
