Bogota’s entire city government resigns after mayor’s impeachment
Bogota’s entire city government resigns after mayor’s impeachment
Mar 20, 2014 posted by Adriaan Alsema
Bogota’s entire government resigned on Wednesday, hours after President Juan Manuel Santos announced to remove Mayor Gustavo Petro from office in spite of an international court order not to do so.
The mass renunciation was announced by Social Integration Secretary Jorge Rojas who said the secretaries’ decision was taken out of solidarity with their mayor.
Santos decided to sign off on the leftist Petro’s 10-year ban from politics, which took effect immediately. The president subsequently appointed Labor Minister Rafael Pardo successor and said new elections would be held to decide who gets to finish the 2011-2015 term.
The city government will stay on until April 1 in order to prepare a final presentation of what Petro and his secretaries have achieved since taking office in January 2011.
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