Iván Name will not resign from his post as vice-president of the Senate and has called his colleagues’ request “excessive”

The representatives in the House of the Green Party, Inti Asprilla, Fabian Diaz, Katherine Miranda, León Freddy Muñoz and César Augusto Ortíz, sent a letter to the senator of this same community Ivan’s name ask for his resignation from the second vice-presidency of the Senate, which is the representation of the opposition before the board of directors of this chamber.

On July 28, Senator Name responded to this letter and assured him that he would not step down. “I would have preferred to attend a meeting with you personally to inform you directly of the background and characteristics of my election as second vice-president of the Senate, which you disqualify. I don’t want to think that it is a deliberate act of disrespect to gain personal political gain from a situation that I have not sought or promoted. “said the politician.

Recall that on July 20, the opposition benches appointed the senator to this post. Gustavo Bolívar as they had agreed a long time ago. However, the rest of the senators voted white and not for Bolivar, so according to the statute of the opposition another senator must be appointed, but without reaching a consensus the Green Party nominated Name, which was ultimately voted for him.

In his letter, Name insisted that no senator intervened in the decisions that were made in the House. “I see that in the exercise of their parliamentary work they crossed a healthy and recommendable limit. It is not in my head to open a public debate on the often difficult decisions that you have taken ”, said the senator to the House representatives of his community.

“My arrival at the second vice-presidency of the Senate was a decision of the majority of the Senate judiciary, once the vacuum left by the other sectors of the opposition, who refused to nominate another candidate from the ranks of the Senate. MAIS party or its historic Pact allies. If they had done so, we would have proceeded to vote for this candidacy, as we did, respecting the agreements, voting for Senator Gustavo Bolívar ”: Iván Name.

The senator assured that there had been no illegal or unethical action either on his part or in the decision adopted by the majorities in the plenary session of the Senate, so he will not attend “The excessive demand you make of me.” In this way, I reiterate the call for dialogue, conciliation and agreement which has always characterized us as a party ”, he stressed.

In the letter sent by the green representatives, it is read that, “The decision taken unilaterally in appointing you (name) for the post of second vice-president ignores what is indicated by the statute of the opposition.”

They add that the Alianza Verde party, declared in the opposition, has carried out responsible and law-abiding work of legislative and political control, and as members of the party, “We consider it essential that this image of an honest and fair political organization continues to permeate public opinion, which is why it is relevant that you consider the possibility of resigning as Second Vice-President of the Senate of the Republic and thus to reach consensus with the other opposition parties in accordance with the spirit of the aforementioned law “.

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