00:00President-elect Abelardo de las Priella announced six new appointments for his administration.
00:05ministerial cabinet, with which he completes a total of 10 appointed ministers.
00:10According to the official statement, these elections aim to form a government team with
00:15Technical profiles, experience in public administration and knowledge of needs
00:20of the country.
00:21Among the new ministers is Elsa Noguera, who will assume the Ministry of
00:26Transportation. An economist by profession, she was mayor of Barranquilla and governor of Atlántico.
00:31and Minister of Housing during the government of Juan Manuel Santos, which gives her a
00:36extensive experience in the public sector.
00:38The Ministry of Commerce will be headed by Mauricio Gómez Amín, a lawyer and former senator.
00:43of the Liberal Party, who was also a representative to the Chamber, councilman and alderman of Barranquilla,
00:49and played an important role as head of debate for the presidential campaign.
00:54Former Attorney General, former Senator and former Ambassador Vivian Morales was appointed Minister of Education.
01:01During his time in Congress with the Liberal Party, Morales promoted a referendum to
01:06amend the Constitution and establish that adoption could only be carried out by
01:11couples made up of a man and a woman, as well as initiatives that include
01:16The Quota Law, aimed at increasing the participation of women in high-ranking government positions.
01:22For his part, Jaime Andrés Beltrán will head the Ministry of Housing. The former mayor of
01:27Bucaramanga and former councilman of that city comes to the position after his term as mayor
01:33It will end in 2025 due to a ruling by the Council of State that determined it incurred double
01:39activism. The Ministry of Sport will be led by Juliana Gutiérrez, administrator
01:44of companies with a master's degree in Risk Management and sister of the mayor of Medellín,
01:49Federico Gutiérrez. Although he has experience in social management and in the private sector,
01:54He has no background in sports administration, an aspect that has generated comments
02:00Regarding his appointment, Iván Cancino was ultimately named Minister.
02:04of Justice, is a criminal lawyer from the Externado University of Colombia, specialist and master
02:10in criminal and criminological sciences, with more than 20 years of professional experience.
02:15He also served as a delegate prosecutor before the Superior Court of Bogotá and as a postgraduate professor
02:21in Colombia and at universities abroad. This leaves him with only eight appointments remaining.
02:26In total there are seven men and three women, so, according to the quota law and the
02:31Under current gender parity decrees, the cabinet is short two men and six women.
02:36women, since there must be nine ministers and nine female ministers, as the Ministry of the
02:41Igualdad is in liquidation, leaving a total of 18 portfolios.
02:46If you want to stay up to date on the appointments that the president-elect's government will make
02:50Abelardo de las Priella, don't forget to visit the political section at www.elespectador.com
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