Bogotá mayor’s party calls for Colombian chancellor to resign after suspension

The party New Liberalismto which the mayor of Bogotá, Carlos Fernando Galáncalled this Wednesday for the resignation of the Colombian chancellor, Álvaro Leyvaafter the Attorney General’s Office (Public Ministry) ordered his suspension from office for three months.

“Given the decision taken by the Attorney General’s Officeto suspend the chancellor Álvaro Leyvasince New Liberalism we ask you to resign“said the director of that party, Juan Manuel Galánmayor’s brother.

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The Attorney General’s Office charged Leyva and suspended him for three months for possible irregularities that occurred during the bidding for a contract to manufacture passports.

According to the attorney general, Daisy White HairO Disciplinary Instruction Room of the Public Ministry suspended Leyva “avoid the possible repetition of the disciplinary infractions attributed to him, taking into account his role as organizer of the expenditure and because he is also the one who directs the new passport bidding process”.

“It is extremely serious as a precedent for the country’s foreign policy, for a State policy such as foreign policy, that we question the figure of the Chancellor of the Republic.” Galán added.

This is why he insisted that Leyva should resign, “that he be removed from office and that a Minister of Foreign Affairs be appointed to lead a strategic policy for the nation, such as foreign policy.”.

Contract canceled

Last September, the Attorney General’s Office opened an investigation against Leyva and the secretary general of Itamaraty José Antonio Salazarfor irregularities in the cancellation of the competition for issuing passports.

Itamaraty then indicated that the bid was canceled because, according to other companies interested in the bid, there is no free competition, since in the last 17 years the same company Thomas Greg and Sonswas responsible for producing Colombian passports and visa stickers.

Therefore, on September 12th, Itamaraty suspended the hearing in which it would define whether the tender was still in the hands of Thomas Greg & Sons or whether, on the contrary, it had been declared null due to lack of bidders.

Twenty days later, Leyva himself resorted to the figure of “manifest urgency”to extend the contract in question, while“the immediate call for a new fully guaranteed competition” to avoid delays in issuing these travel documents.

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As there were still three years left on the contract with Thomas Greg & Sons, the company, after failing to reach a conciliation agreement with the Government, announced last December a lawsuit against the State in the amount of 117 billion pesos. (about 30 million today’s dollars).

The Colombian president, Gustavo Pedroassured upon learning of the decision of the Attorney General’s Office that it was a maneuver to not let “popular and democratic government”.

“They won’t let us govern, of course, it’s the mentality of those (who are) used to leaving people abandoned. They don’t want there to be an example to demonstrate what a popular government, a democratic government, is.”, said Petro, who did not explain the steps he will follow after this decision.

Source: Elcomercio

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