President of Colombia Gustavo Petro. Photo: Daniel Munoz/VIEW press/Corbis via Getty Images.
This Sunday, through a social media post, Colombian President Gustavo Petro called for the resignation of all his ministers and other senior government officials.
The context of this decision by the Colombian president takes place in the midst of the crisis that his cabinet is experiencing following the controversial cabinet meeting last Tuesday that was broadcast on television and social media.
“I have requested the formal resignation of ministers and directors of administrative departments,” Petro wrote on social media. There will be some changes in the cabinet to achieve greater compliance with the program ordered by the people.
He solicitado renuncia protocolaria a ministras, ministros y directores de departamentos administrativos.
Habrá algunos cambios en el gabinete para lograr mayor cumplimiento en el programa ordenado por el pueblo.
El gobierno se concentrará completamente en el cumplimiento del…
— Gustavo Petro (@petrogustavo) February 9, 2025
“The president is not listened to. The ministers do not listen to him,” Petro lashed out at that meeting, admitting the inefficiency of his administration and describing the faults as “fatal.”
“The president is a revolutionary, the government is not,” Petro added.
Colombia’s Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, Susana Muhamad, one of the government’s star officials, announced this Sunday that she had submitted her resignation to President Gustavo Petro as a result of the differences that surfaced at the cabinet meeting last Tuesday.
Minutes after Petro published this message, the Minister of Labor, Gloria InĂ©s RamĂrez, presented her “irrevocable resignation” from her position and thanked the president for having allowed her to work on a “political agenda in favor of millions of workers, in the need to comply with the popular mandate of the Government of Change.”
Colombia: Resignations in Gustavo Petro’s Cabinet Deepens Crisis in Progressive Government
“We will continue working for a more just and increasingly democratic Colombia, understanding that politics must move forward without sectarianism but without ambiguity,” added RamĂrez, who had been in the government since Petro’s inauguration as president.
(RedRadioVE) by Victoria Torres
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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