Representative Lucrecia Marroquín de Palomo announced that she is politically separating from the VALOR-Unionista coalition, with which she nominated Zury Ríos as a presidential candidate. With this coalition they achieved five seats in the Congressof the three are Valor and two Unionists.
Marroquín de Palomo indicated in Congress that she feels “comfortable” working with the Unionist party, so the coalition will cease to exist. With this decision Valor would be left with 10 deputies and two Unionists, these being Marroquín de Palomo and Álvaro Arzú Escobar.
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#LaRedInforma | Representative Lucrecia de Palomo re-elected by the VALOR-UNIONIST coalition announces her political status after retiring from the Valor bench and returning to the Unionist party pic.twitter.com/nCLqr3ffrE
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“With Valor at this moment, I couldn’t tell you that I feel bad, because I don’t feel bad, but it is a space that I want to have differently, I want to have a different space to continue working as I did in the last legislature and work on the topics that interest me for the development of the country”said the parliamentarian.
The representative stated that she could not continue working with Valor because there are already other leaders who are interested in these issues and there are other leaders and other criteria for what is going to be done.
With the separation of Marroquín de Palomo and Arzú, Congress is now recomposed into 18 benches, to recognize Unionistas as another bloc, with two deputies.
By recognizing Unionista as a new bloc, they should also designate a bloc leader and thereby receive all the prerogatives that include a space in the instance of bloc leaders with voice and vote, as well as financial resources, offices and administrative staff.
