Finance Minister Alberto Carrasquilla and Deputy Minister Juan Alberto Londoño have announced their resignation

The perpetrators of the failed tax reform initiative, Minister Alberto Carrasquilla and Deputy Minister Juan Alberto Londoño, reportedly announced their intention to resign President Iván Duque on Monday., after the president requested the withdrawal of the text of the project which had been submitted to the Congress of the Republic.

Although neither the officials nor the Presidency of the Republic have commented on the matter, it appeared in the political media and at the house of Nariño that the communication would become official during this morning.

This will be the first time that there will be a change in the finance and public credit portfolio in Iván Duque’s government, since Carrasquilla has held the post since the formation of the ministerial team.

The resignation would be presented while in the Congress of the Republic they were preparing the second motion of censure against Carrasquilla, an initiative which, according to opposition senators, had already added 60 signatures, As a result of the tax reform that generated the rejection and called for a national strike that has already completed five days of protests across the country.

The resignation must be accepted by President Iván Duque, who, according to media reports, already has the resignation letters sent by Carrasquilla and Londoño. However, according to the newspaper El Tiempo, the head of state has not taken a decision in this regard.

According to the information this newspaper was able to collect, Minister Carrasquilla felt annoyed by the withdrawal of the reform and this decision reduced his ability to intercede at the Congress of the Republic., facing the treatment of a new tax reform text, as proposed by President Duque.

As the Minister of Finance told Semana magazine on April 18, he was “absolutely committed to this tax reform” and had devoted several hours of work to it, as he also held before the economic committees of Congress.

After five protests against the tax reform, this Sunday, May 2, President Iván Duque asked the Congress of the Republic to withdraw the text, Thanks to an address with the team of ministers in which Carrasquilla was not present, in his place was Juan Alberto Londoño, as the most distant person in the group.

For this reason, he began to speculate that the minister might explore the possibility of resigning, given the national dialogue proposed by President Duque. formulate a new tax reform resulting from a consensus with the political and social sectors.

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