:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/JYXDFOWJVVBSJANBXUFRZ2NPME.jpg "Coup in the Conservative Party: Efraín Cepeda is the new president to replace Carlos Andrés Trujillo")
On the morning of this Wednesday, February 15, and after the uncertainty within the Conservative partyit was confirmed that the tanned senator Efrain Cepeda He was named the new community director, also replacing the congressman Carlos Andres Trujillowho had led the party since 2022.
Carlos Andrés Trujillo assures that he will continue to be the president of the Conservative Party: “The National Directorate is the one who decides”
Several members of Congress from the “goda bench” have supported their leader, despite the fact that there is obvious nonconformity among the other members; they will call a group meeting
were almost 15 days of the offer to define whether or not Trujillo would leave his post and, although he tried to delay the meeting of the board of directors which was held this Wednesday, in the end decided to resign in this and give Cepeda a free hand to lead the conservative bench. This, in the middle of an election year and a few months before the regional elections are held.
“Unanimously by the members of the conservative National Directory, he was elected the new President of the VSThe conservative senator Efraín Cepeda, who will have the responsibility of leading the community in the face of regional elections, ”assured the community.
It must be remembered that the meeting was brought forward to decide on the issue and that once and for all, the course that one of the oldest political houses in the country would take was defined. After the meeting of all the members of the Conservative National Directory It has therefore been confirmed that Efraín Cepeda will take the reins of the party; later he continued to swear in his new dignity.
However, although several party activists pressured Trujillo to the point of make him resignit was confirmed that in 2024, when the curator matches the Presidency of the Senate of the Republic, It will be the outgoing director today who will occupy this position, replacing the one who will receive this position on July 20 when Roy Barreras, of the Historic Pact, ends.
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In the agreements reached this Wednesday, it was also defined that as second vice-president of the community, the representative in the Chamber of Caquetá Hector Mauricio Cuellar Pinzon, who was also sworn in to his new position.
Likewise, it has been defined that Adolfo Pineda Garcia is the new Secretary General of the Conservative National Directorate. “He is a lawyer and holds a master’s degree in governance and political communication”, specifies the party.
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With this new board, led by longtime senator Cepeda, who is 72 and was eight periods in the Congress of the Republic, representing the “banc goda”, the Conservative Party will begin warm up the engines participate in the elections in October this year in which town halls, governorships, assemblies and councils will be contested.
It should be remembered that, in the past, Efrain Cepeda He had already led the community twice and his supporters decided to re-elect him considering that Trujillo only represented his personal interests and not those of the integral blue leadership. After receiving this clearance, the new director declared the challenges he will face.
“We have a united party facing the regional elections, I assume this responsibility by ratifying my commitment to listen to our bases because the most important thing is to consolidate our regional strength”, declared the deputy, who is an economist by profession and since 1994 has been immersed in the Colombian legislative environment.
It should be mentioned that, although the decision for Cepeda to assume the presidency of the conservative party was unanimous, Trujillo had no choice but to resign from his position by letting go of one of the political crises most talked about this year. Indeed, a few days ago, when the non-conformity between party representatives and activists became known, the currently vacant director assured that he would continue to perform his duties despite the various objections read in the letters , social media posts, among others. In a statement on Twitter, it was even said that Trujillo had communicated with the leaders of the board of directors, who with signature and namethey have decided to reiterate their support for him to continue leading the Conservatives, but today we will see.