Before filing the Development Plan 2022-2026, Jorge Iván González, director of National Planning, received more than 1,100 proposals from different sectors that he had to reduce to the 300 articles he presented a month ago. However, now in his discussion in Congress, many of those petitions could be revived and others that did remain would fall.
Until now, There are already almost 1,300 proposals from representatives and senators from different benches to try to change the road map of the Gustavo Petro government for the next four years.
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They range from those who want to eliminate some of the extraordinary powers who have the president with the Plan, to those who seek greater investments and projects in their different regions.
For now, while the coordinators and speakers of the project continue to meet with government officials to be able to have the paper ready for the first debate in two weeks, Planning has begun to hold a series of public hearings in the regions. Last week was the first in Cali. This will be in Bogotá and in Bello (Antioquia).
“Here we need projects in which the Nation, the private sector, the territorial entity and cooperation allocate resources. This has to be multisectoral,” said González.
Changes to the Plan
Liberal senator Karina Espinosa, for example, calls for the elimination of the extraordinary power to regulate the alternative uses of the coca plant and the one that would allow regulating the special conditions of imprisonment for members of indigenous peoples and communities.
The also liberal Aníbal Hoyos, representative to the Chamber for Risaralda, proposes to eliminate the extraordinary power that would allow establishing the instruments that are required to implement the policies of reindustrialization and strengthening of the popular economy. “As it is written, it can imply that the President is being empowered to modify laws, which, as is well known, is the exclusive competence of the legislature,” says Hoyos.
On the regional side, the proposal of Senators Miguel Uribe (Democratic Center) and David Luna (Cambio Radical) stands out. They want to include within the strategic projects some for Bogota such as the first and second line of the subwaythe rehabilitation of the Cundinamarca regional railway network (Regiotram de Occidente and Regiotram del Norte), the expansion of the infrastructure of the National and Pedagogical University or the comprehensive restoration of the San Juan de Dios hospital complex.
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“The National Government undertakes to continue with the development of the project for the second line of the Bogotá metro in accordance with the studies presented and the financing commitments acquired between the District and the Nation”, the proposal states.
«Taxing pensions is unconstitutional,» says Senator Miguel Uribe about the tax reform. And he adds: «I am convinced that no pension should be taxed.»
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more requests
Other representatives also ask to include in the Plan strategic projects for the economic development of departments such as Casanare, Arauca, Risaralda, Caldas and Quindío, among others.
There are also proposals for the peace resources to be used to finance investment projects whose sole purpose is the implementation of the Peace Agreement and they want to eliminate the delivery of unconditional transfers so that only conditional ones exist.
For example, him Representative José Eliécer Salazar It requests that the term for granting land titles to land invaders who live on a property is not 3 years, as established in the document, but 5 years. «The term of 3 years is very short to determine the ordinary acquisitive prescription of a real estate property and in no case can it be compared to that of a movable property,» he specifies.
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Karina Espinosa requests that the article that prohibits large-scale open-pit mining for thermal coal specify that «the holders of exploration contracts that are in execution at the time this law comes into force may request a mining exploitation license with the purpose of saving the pre-investment made in the national territory”.
new items
In the package of propositions that I met EL TIEMPO, also there are dozens of new articles. For example, the representative to the Chamber, Jhon Jairo González, calls for the creation of a public housing policy for the victims of the armed conflict. Also the paving intervention of the main road of the municipality of Nechí (Antioquia) and the intervention of the corridor of the municipality of Ituango, in Antioquia.
The representative to the Chamber Carlos Ardila Espinosa has a new one that talks about creating a strategy to guarantee, strengthen and promote road connectivity to the southwest of the country. In addition, the representative to the Chamber for the Risaralda department of the Alianza Verde Carolina Giraldo participated in a proposal that calls for the execution of a new LGBTIQ+ public policy carried out by the Ministry of Equality in coordination with departmental and municipal entities. .
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In the development of the hearing in Cali last week, congressmen, unions and social leaders presented to the DNP proposals such as the increase in tertiary roadsthe strengthening of the port of Buenaventura, the expansion of the railway strategy, the release of the debt of Empresas Municipales de Cali (Emcali) to invest in energy transformation projects, and new investments in the airport, among others.