Roy Barreras hasn’t ruled out continuing in Congress if his cancer treatment continues to improve

The Historic Covenant Congressman Roy Barreras He had announced that he would resign from the Legislative Assembly at the end of his term as Speaker of the Upper House due to his medical condition. The senator is facing treatment for colon cancer, and the most recent advances in his therapy have reopened the door for him to last longer on the national Capitol.

“I have shared with you, as is my duty, the ‘bad news’ of cancer. Today I share the good news with you,” he wrote on his Twitter account and revealed the results left by radiotherapy and chemotherapy.The tumor has shrunk by 90% said the parliamentarian. It is a day of happiness when we get rid of evil”.

In a newspaper interview The ColombianBarreras claimed that his withdrawal from Congress “It depends on a medical decision”. Following this, he explained how his process is going: “at the end of April, we will know if this 10% that I miss has been cured or not, or if I should not have an operation”. In case this happens, until July, it will be known whether the surgery “is satisfactory or not”.

Despite this optimistic vision, the legislator asked the Head of State to prepare in case he definitively resigns from Congress. “I notified the President that he was ready a plan B, because if I become incapacitated, I definitely have to retire,” Barreras told Antioquia newspaper.

Asked who could assume his role as president of the Senate, the congressman indicated that, according to the law, he would be the vice president of this company, Miguel Angel Pinto. While, if he resigns on July 20, the Historic Pact had proposed that he be “a great leader of Congress, Gustavo Bolívar, who unfortunately resigned”.

In this direction, We still don’t know what plan B would be. of the national government coalition. “If he (Gustavo Bolívar) was ready, he would carry out the reforms with a lot of focus,” Barreras said. Let’s search”.

Despite his state of health, the President of the Senate did not stop fulfilling his role in the Legislative Assembly and even promoted the reforms of President Gustavo Petro’s cabinet. At the same time, he shared his time to realize the construction of the party force for peaceincluding the founder and was officially launched on February 21.

“My party is part of the Pact, it is a founder. It was two years ago, but we had no legal status. Today, we present the candidatures of the Pact”, he declared during the launch ceremony at the Hotel Tequendama, in Bogotá. Barreras said that in his movement there are candidates for the legislative elections to be held in October.

“Our candidates are ready to submit to the consultation where there are interesting candidates from the other six parties of the Pact”, he added.

Regarding his treatment, the parliamentarian sent a message to those who live in a situation similar to his. “To the thousands of families who suffer from cancer in a loved one, I dedicate this short thread with my hopeful testimony”, he specified from his Twitter account and highlighted the medical advances and that, “Most cancers are curable.”

For Barreras, “the discomfort caused by chemotherapy is temporary”; however, he did not ignore the emotional implications that patients suffering from these diseases have. “Patients are often depressed by the symptoms of chemo,” said the official, who is also a doctor and urged such people to fight cancer.

“Go to end of processing”, Barreras underlined and acknowledged that the symptoms are cumulative and that the last sessions are the most difficult. “But they heal! When they inject you with the chemo fluids (I write connected to the infusion pump in my sixth cycle) Celebrate it! They receive in the veins the substances which dissolve the tumour”.