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In the Legal Secretariat there are several decrees in process accepting resignations. And, in some cases, appointing replacements.
The outgoing Minister of Housing Helga Rivas; Piedad Urdinola, from Dane; Iván Velásquez and the outgoing minister of mines Edwin Palma. Photo: Social networks
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High-ranking sources from Casa de Nariño confirmed to EL TIEMPO that in recent hours several resignations have been recorded of senior officials of the outgoing government of Gustavo Petro.
Although Attention has focused on the resignation presented this morning by the Minister of Mines and Energy, Edwin Palmawho will be replaced by the head of the National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH), Pablo Yesid Fajardo; EL TIEMPO established that the Housing Minister, Helga Rivas, is also in process.
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Protocols or requests?
The Minister of Housing, Helga Rivas. Photo:MAURICIO MORENO
Sources within the Government told EL TIEMPO that in most cases These are protocol resignations due to the change of administration, but at least two would have been requested directly by the President.
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This newspaper investigated and established that Palma’s has not yet been read or accepted and that Several ambassadors are also in the cascade of resignations, including Iván Velásquez, in the Vatican; and Daniel Prado Albarracín, in Belgium, who was also the President’s lawyer.
President Gustavo Petro and lawyer Daniel Prado Albarracín. Photo:THE TIME
Also, that of the director of Dane, Piedad Urdinola.
The resignation of Iván Velásquez occurs at a time when the Attorney General’s Office and other authorities They investigate the alleged payments to the ‘Gulf clan’, while he served as Minister of Defense.
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