The elected president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, confirmed three new names for his future cabinet on Tuesday by appointing the doctor Carolina Corcho in the Health portfolio, the economist Cecilia López Montaño in Agriculture and the environmental political scientist Susana Muhamad in Environment.
This was stated in an interview with On the radioin which he launched these new names that are added to those of Álvaro Leyva in the Foreign Ministry, José Antonio Ocampo in the Treasury and the last one that was known yesterday of the playwright Patricia Ariza in Culture.
Corcho, a psychiatrist and political scientist who was leading the connection team with the current Health executive, became known during the pandemic when she began speaking as vice president of the Colombian Medical Federation, a health union, denouncing the conditions of the workers. Of the health.
However, he was criticized for making incorrect statements among his complaints, with data that was not true.
For her part, López Montaño, a 79-year-old liberal politician with extensive experience in offices, was already Minister of Agriculture between 1996 and 1997 during the government of Ernesto Samper.
López Montaño, who also held a seat in the Senate and was a Liberal Party presidential candidate for 2010, showed his support for Petro during the second round campaign, along with other liberal congressmen and former ministers and more from the center wing.
More moderate sector
With her, Petro once again bets on giving positions in his government to the most moderate and center sector, as he already did with Ocampo, a highly reputed economist who was executive secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and even with the conservative Leyva, a politician expert in peace matters and negotiations.
Lastly, Muhamad, current member of the Bogotá Council and who belongs to the formation of Petro, la Colombia Humana, was secretary of the environment in Bogotá between 2012 and 2015 when the next president was mayor, and is a political scientist with a master’s degree in Management and Planning. of Sustainable Development.
Petro promised that his cabinet would be equal, and with these appointments there are already four women in front of two men – most of them over 60 years old – although the names of the other twelve people who will occupy such important positions remain to be known. such as Defense, Justice or Interior