Duke executes the first cabinet meeting with his almost complete cabinet

President-elect Iván Duque, who will take office on August 7, met Monday in Bogotá for the first time with all the ministers he appointed for his government

During the meeting, Duque presented a report on the transition process that his team has done, led by the future Minister of Finance, Alberto Carrasquilla, with the Government of President Juan Manuel Santos, According to his office, he did not give more details about the intervention of the president-elect.

The day was chaired by Duque and by the elected Vice President, Marta Lucía Ramírez, first woman in the history of Colombia to occupy this position.

See also: "Iván Duque appoints Susana Correa as Director of Social Prosperity"

Like Ramirez, the next Minister of the Interior, the former senator, took the floor. Nancy Patricia Gutiérrez, and the former Deputy Minister of Defense, Jorge Mario Eastman, whose role in the future government of Duque is still unknown

In addition to Gutiérrez and Carrasquilla, who was already the owner of the wallet Treasury between 2003 and 2007 In the administration of Alvaro Uribe, Duque appointed 13 other ministers

Also read: "Duque's ministerial cabinet, in the economic line more than in politics?"

In this way, he has already appointed Among the future ministers include the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carlos Holmes Trujillo, businessman Guillermo Botero in the defense portfolio, the former -staff of the Program. United Nations Development (UNDP) Gloria María Bottero in justice and the former ambbadador to the UN Alicia Arango in the work