8 senators from the Seventh Senate Commission filed a negative opinion on the health reform project. With this, apparently those who oppose the project could achieve majorities and sink one of the Government’s most important initiatives.
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A group of 8 senators from opposition groups presented a negative presentation to the secretariat of that corporation about the health reform of Gustavo Petro’s government. With that number of endorsements, it becomes the majority presentation above the one supported by the official sectors close to the president.
The group is made up of Lorena Ríos Cuellar, from Colombia Justa Libres; Nadia Blel of the Conservative Party; Alirio Barrera of the Democratic Center; Miguel Ángel Pinto of the Liberal Party; and Berenice Bedoya of the ASI Party.
“The seven senators present here, members of the Seventh Commission (…) after a meticulous, long and extensive study on the health reform, a project that is being processed in our commission, we have come to the conclusion of filing a negative report today requesting the archiving of this project for reasons of formal defect, reasons of substantive defect and because it is unnecessary for the country for many reasons that we will delve into in our debate,” assured Senator Pinto.
Some congressmen have already interpreted that with this the opposition could achieve majorities and in that sense manage to sink the Government project in its third debate.
“The Seventh Committee of the Senate is made up of 14 congressmen. With the archival report signed by 8 senators, the reform would be sunk: in the event of a tie, and after repeating the vote, the project is archived. “Hard setback for the government, victim of its intransigence,” assured the representative to the Chamber Andrés Forero, of the Democratic Center.
