Minister of the Interior will appoint an ad hoc governor for Valle del Cauca: this is the reason
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Faced with the call of several candidates for the Governorship of Valle and even the governor herself, Clara Luz Roldán, the Minister of the Interior, Luis Fernando Velasco, announced that he will respond to the request of the candidates and the president. to guarantee transparency in the elections on Sunday, October 29, 2023.
“I have made the request for the declaration of impediment to the @PGN_COL, so that the national government can subsequently appoint an ad hoc Governor, in order to guarantee greater transparency for all candidates and there will be absolutely no doubt for election day in Valle del Cauca, which we hope will develop peacefully and normally in our 40 municipalities and 2 Special Districts,” was Roldán’s message to the Attorney General’s Office through his X account ( formerly Twitter).
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During a statement to the media, Minister Velasco assured that he received the request from the interested in appointing a new temporary president in Valle del Caucawhile the regional elections are taking place: “I understand that the governor of Valle del Cauca, in an act that I value, has indicated that she prefers that, compared to the calls that some candidates have made to her, she be appointed Ad hoc governor while the process goes through. electoral”.
The official is on tour in Colombia to socialize the 2023 Project Bank, which will seek to finance investment initiatives, economic reactivation, strengthening of social infrastructure, the social fabric and the defense of human rights for social leaders, the LGBTIQ+ population, people with some disability, peasant organizations and religious entities.
“Some officials from the Government of Valle del Cauca had already asked me for the email address to which they can send the documents, which I assume is that request, which the national government will immediately accept,” the head of the portfolio announced to the media.
Several candidates for the Governorship of Valle did not view favorably the presence of the current governor Clara Luz Roldán in office, since her co-partisan and bishop Dilian Francisca Toro, also a former governor, He is in contention to return to office.
The candidates who made the request were Ferney Lozano, candidate for the Historical Pact; Luis Fernando Velásquez, from the Casco Anticorrupción citizen movement; Tulio Gómez, from the coalition made up of the Green Party, the Ecologist Party of Colombia and En Marcha; and William Cruz, leader of the movement against political machines.
Tulio Gómez was one of the first candidates to announce this request: “On September 7, we submitted a request to the Attorney General’s Office to appoint an ad hoc governor. We have no guarantees, that is why we reiterate our request that they appoint a governor who guarantees impartiality.”
The candidates insisted that this was the only way to ensure the guarantees of transparent elections. “This is an anti-corruption manifesto. All candidates are uniting against that ruling class that has been plundering Valle del Cauca and using public finances to favor its bureaucracy,” said candidate Velásquez.
Faced with multiple complaints, the current governor of Valle del Cauca said that, despite the transparency of her management in the midst of the electoral campaign, considers these requests appropriate, which it supports.
“What I want, although I have been totally transparent throughout this time, we have respected everything that is required, but so that the other candidates have peace of mind that in the elections they will have guarantees that I would not deny, but if they have more peace of mind with an ad hoc governor, I have no problem,” Roldán added.
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