Iván Márquez officially resigned from his seat in the Senate of the Republic | Policy

& # 39; Márquez & # 39; had previously announced that it would not badume not his position, and attributed his decision to the "non-compliance" by the government with the issues of the peace agreement and the lack of "guarantees" for the members of the demobilized guerrillas.

Punctually, the resignation Márquez is in favor of his fellow Jesús Santrich, who is currently being held at La Picota prison in Bogotá, where he is facing extradition proceedings in the United States. in the plot to send about 10 tons of cocaine to this country

Santrich insists to take possession

Unlike Márquez, Santrich continues to seek a way to become a member of Congress in the House representatives in one of his last In his attempts, he sent a letter to the president of the corporation, Alejandro Chacón, in which he wrote his own deed of possession.

"I stand before you as president of this honorable company to take possession and badume the exercise of my parliamentary duties," dictates Santrich's letter in one of the paragraphs. allow Jesus Christ Hernández Solarte to take the oath, invoking the protection of God before this corporation to defend and defend the Constitution and the Laws of the Republic and faithfully fulfill the duties of the office. "

] He would lose his seat

Unlike his colleagues in the Farc party, who took office on 20 July as members of Congress, Jesus Santrich could not do so because of his legal problems.

According to the experts, If he fails to take office next week, Santrich runs the risk of losing the seat badigned to him under the peace agreements signed between the national government and the FARC [1]. 9659011] He must be present at the Congress. In the case of failure to take possession within the set deadlines, Santrich runs the risk that the State Council dictates the loss of the investiture for non-possession, "said political scientist Gerardo Martínez