Infrastructure and revenues of the country, under debate for the sale of Ecopetrol

In social networks do not stop to say that Ecopetrol is the goose that lays the golden eggs, so that according to the Colombian Federation of Colombian Insurers (Fasecolda), the sale of the company would be between 13 000 billion pesos and 160 billion, which corresponds to resources between 13% and 16% of gross domestic product (GDP) and 60% of accumulated savings in private pension funds. If sold in 2018, the company would be valued at $ 138 billion, including debt (see chart). The state has 88.5% of the company

Fasecolda's argument is that the government should follow international practices and "let the private sector produce goods and services unless in the circumstances where those who exist market failures. "

The resources would be used to build the infrastructure, which he explained Jorge Humberto Botero the union president would serve to improve competitiveness.

As the leader acknowledges that. An important part of the state's resources comes from Ecopetrol's dividends, the proposal includes a disposal, and the creation of a fund that would provide resources to the government within 10 years through the returns. and that at the end of this period the economy I would have found other sources to support its growth.

In infrastructure, the capital transfer would be through he proposed that the sale could be made in a single cut or in portions, in any case this possibility should go through the Congress of the Republic

The Minister of Finance, Mauricio Cárdenas stressed that the new gou Vernment should continue in its way of selling badets, although yesterday It specifically mentioned to EL COLOMBIANO, in the interview published on May 6, 2018, that in this way, the recommendation is that " this money can not be used to finance the government's current expenses, it would be a change of one badet for another, not to facilitate compliance with the tax rule. The country can not sell the badets to open the space for expenses. "

For the president of the National Association of Entrepreneurs (Andi), Bruce Mac Master the idea does not appear." This is not the time to give this debate, society is very important to Colombians and public finances, and it produces a high profitability ", in which it acknowledges to be a partial sale.

Mac Master argues that it is Ramón Javier Mesa, Researcher of the Applied Macroeconomics Group of the University of Antioquia

One of the recommendations for this government is to sell 10% "to continue" working on the consolidation of fourth generation roads. "

The recommended sale is partial and not total, because for Mesa the company represents the main Colombian badet," it is very important in exports and transfers to the state.The oil is a strategic resource that should not be left to x foreign multinationals. "