The Senate leaves the health reform of the Petro Government on the brink of collapse

Eight of the 14 senators that make up the Seventh Commission of the Senate of the Republic have just signed a presentation on the health reform of the Government of Gustavo Petro.

With this decision, a majority is formed among the congressmen who will define the future of the controversial bill, which seeks to fundamentally transform Colombia's health system.

The archival presentation was filed this Tuesday early in the morning by senators Lorena Ríos Cuéllar, Honorio Henríquez, Alirio Barrera, Nadia Blel Scaff, José Alfredo Marín, Miguel Ángel Pinto and Berenice Bedoya, members of the center and the right Democratic Center, Conservative, Liberal, ASI and Colombia Justa y Libres.

With that, a signature was needed to sink the project.

Finally, the senator of the La U party, Norma Hurtado, supported the initiative to archive the reform, after having prepared an alternative presentation that substantially modified the proposal.

Although signing a document does not obligate you to vote for it, it does mark the political position of the parties, so the Government will have to achieve an extraordinary feat to save the reform project to which it has invested most strongly in the year and a half of Administration.

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