Following the resignation of Clara María González from the Legal Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic, Germán Eduardo Quintero, from Ibaguere, who until now holds the position of secretary in the Ministry of Finance, will take his place.
Quintero has also been secretary of the Ministry of Mines and Energy, the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of the Interior. Likewise, among his experience, it is worth mentioning that he has been in charge of the direction of Fogafín and the National Hydrocarbons Agency.
Clara María González’s successor did her primary and secondary studies at the San Luis Gonzaga school in Ibagué, and is a lawyer from the Sergio Arboleda University with a doctorate in Administrative Law from the San Pablo CEU University in Madrid.
Among other functions, the Legal Secretary must prepare the bills or legislative acts that the President seeks to present to Congress; it reviews the draft decree and executive resolution that must be submitted to the President for consideration and challenges judicial rulings against the head of state.
González resigned from the Legal Secretariat of the Presidency last December arguing personal reasons, after being termed by President Iván Duque to take over the direction of the Prosecutor’s Office, where Francisco Barbosa finally stayed.
However, around her departure from the Casa de Nariño it was speculated that the official left office because she had become the ‘shoe stone’ for some members of the Government, which would have generated tensions.
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At the university he met President Duque, who will take him into office next Tuesday, January 12.
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