With a vote of 54 in favor and 30 against in the Senate, and 98 in favor and 39 against in the Camera, Congress approved the article that suspends a paragraph of the guarantees law and allows mayors and governors to contract through inter-administrative agreements during the electoral period.
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Some opposition politicians reacted to the decision taken by Congress. Luis Fernando Velasco, senator for the Liberal PartyHe wrote on his Twitter account: “I will demand an article of the budget law that suspends the guarantees law as unconstitutional and I will also request the president of @SenadoGovCo to send that law to the @CConstitucional for review for having modifications to the statutory law. Without revision it does not come into effect ”, he assured.
In addition, Roy Barreras, current presidential candidate for the Historical Pact, expressed: “Warning to the National Government, Governors and Mayors. They prevaricate if they apply it ”.
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The legal support of his claim argues that “it is unconstitutional and illegal to reform a statutory law through a law that does not have this same category.”
Legal support for my claim against the elimination of the Law of Guarantees in the middle of the electoral process: ????Warning to the National Government, Governors and Mayors. They prevaricate if they apply it. pic.twitter.com/KMLHC882Rf
– Roy Barreras (@RoyBarreras) October 20, 2021
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In article 125, which is the one that modifies the Law of Guarantees, it is established that as of the publication of this law and during fiscal 2022, the Nation may enter into inter-administrative agreements with territorial entities to execute corresponding programs and projects. to the General Budget of the Nation.
However, in that second debate it was specified that all the agreements signed must be subject to special control by the Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic.
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“They want to use our taxes to oil the political machine for the next elections. They want to use the resources of Colombians to re-elect the country’s corruption, ”said the representative. Katherine Miranda.
In addition, John Milton Rodríguez, Senator for Colombia Justa Libres, said: “I regret that the government and the congressional majorities have contaminated the 2022 budget, invalidating the guarantees law in electoral time, open door to corruption through hiring, all my rejection.”
Gustavo Bolivar He also expressed through his Twitter account: “The CD voted“ YES ”to the elimination of the guarantee law except for 3 members, among them the presidential candidates. Paloma and Cabal voted with the Mamertos. Can you believe it?
3 and a half years voting everything for Duque and today they join us. They know we are right #NidoDeRatas “.
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