“We could not approve any reform”: Senate President Roy Barreras assured that the government had lost a month and a half in Congress

After the President of Congress, Roy Barreras, met the President of the Republic, Gustavo Petro, behind closed doors, the spokesman for the Historic Pact in Congress gave some details of his conversation with the President, to whom he informed that it may be necessary to convene additional new sessions in Parliament in order to carry out the initiatives of the Government.

“I asked the president that to recover the month and a half of supplements that was lost, because we could not approve any reform even in the first debate, we recover this time today and we must consider the possibility of novelties between June and July,” said Barreras during a meeting with the press.

Later, the microphones of snail radio The parliamentarian addressed several issues, and began by warning that his resignation from the legislature will depend on his state of health and the result of a positron CT scan which will be carried out next month.

Also referring to the health reform, the participation of former President Juan Manuel Santos in this government, and the need for a consensus around all the reforms that are made, faithful squire to the President, Roy Barreras called for detaching the President of his family vicissitudes.

It all started when they asked him for the identity of all the the Spaniards that they received Colombian nationality and that they rubbed shoulders with the presidential personality, to which the senator replied that he “has no idea” who they are and that he met someone who, in the context of the campaign, played a very important role in electoral control.

“We did not know what happened next, I have no idea, but I take this opportunity to say that any action by those close to the campaign, the government or even the family is foreign to President Petro, who is committed to thinking about Colombian well-being. It is very difficult to answer for the performance of everyone around you. The personal activities of parents, children, wife, brothers, it is very difficult to control them when someone devotes himself to governing. The president must be protected and must be separated from this type of action,” he said. snail radio Senator Roy Barreras.

He added that the criminal responsibilities are individual and that if the “friends” make mistakes, “then you must do what President Gustavo Petro courageously did: investigate the pursuitBarreras concluded in this regard.

Immediately afterwards, the senator referred to the drop in the polls in favor of the president, and indicated that the 52% approval this means that the president still has the affection of the majority of Colombians (referring to the results of the latest measurement by the polling company Cifras y Conceptos).

“I believe that this decrease is linked to the health reform and the fear that has been generated in people of being unprotected the next day with a brutal reform, but that will clear up when we approve of a concerted and balanced reform that the sanitary conditions improve, especially in relation to the delay in appointments, ”warned Barreras, who said of Minister Corcho that the heads of portfolio must be open to dialogue and that he hopes to have lunch with her next week.

Point aside, given that the President of the Senate receives criticism from the Democratic center, as well as from friendly field parliamentarians such as gustavo bolivarBarreras pointed out that “when you get shot down on both sides, it’s because we’re in the center and that means we’re in the right place,” he said.

The parliamentarian also specified that the former president Juan Manuel Santos and Colombia’s first Nobel Peace Prize laureate does not participate in national politics and has no influence over the progressive government of Gustavo Petro.

“President Santos is not involved in anything. Give your opinion, as you heard and as we heard at the opening of the peacekeeping force, a situation in which you were generous enough to send a very clear video, since your concern is the legacy of peace, but you don’t actively participate in anything. Now he believes that until we apply the Peace agreement, that it is a roadmap for Colombia, insofar as it includes agrarian reform, the dignity of peasants, and that it includes political reform to tackle grassroots clientelism. He demands that the implementation of the agreement be respected and he is his only spokesperson, ”warned Senator Barreras to the aforementioned media.

In this conversation, referring to the peace agreements, Senator Barreras condemned the campaign against the governor of Tolíma de Adriana Magali Dyeingwhich is supported by Alberto Santofimio Botero. Indeed, the politician reappeared in the political arena during an event that took place in Ibague, alongside the candidate Matiz.

“It seems to me an affront to history and morality. Luis Carlos Galan he was the icon of our generation, a moral beacon and a serious man who murdered Pablo Escobar to the applause, if not with the complicity, of Alberto Santofimio. A man who made this affront to the country, who legitimized drug trafficking when he was a senator of the republic, to be released from prison to continue in politics is a shame. Here it is worth killing Galán and continuing in politics. He has already paid, yes, to go with his grandchildren wherever he wants, but not to recover power in Tolima through a candidate,” he said in this regard.

Another point, after flattering the silence of former President Álvaro Uribe, and this was notorious, Senator Barreras congratulated himself on being cautious at this stage, “and not like the former President Andres Pastrana, who comes out irresponsibly to demand political trials that would only generate greater instability. Pastrana has not overcome his fight with former President Ernesto Samper and believes that we are 20 years behind,” he said.

Finally, although his future aspiration for the presidency is clear, Senator Barreras indicated that at present, with only eight months in office, it is irresponsible to think of a candidacy.