Uribist Honorio Henríquez Will Preside over the Colombian Senate After Gaining Support for Petrism
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The appointment of the president of the Senate has evidenced the first struggle between formations of the Colombian right, since the party of the elected president has a minority representation in the Colombian Parliament.
Uribist Honorio Henríquez will preside over the Colombian Senate after gaining support for petrism
With 56 votes, Honorio Miguel Henríquez Pinedo is the new president of the Senate after an intense fight with Alfredo Deluque, the aspiring U who had the wink of the elected President Abelardo de la Espriella. He was born in Santa Marta, Magdalena, in 1971. He is a senator of the Centro Democrático party since 2014 and is part of the Seventh Senate Commission, which is in charge of constitutional reforms. Through there pass the proposals to chan…
The Congress of Colombia has given a strong and unprecedented defeat to the elected president Abelardo De la Espriella. On Monday night, the Senate elected Senator Honorio Henríquez, of the Democratic Center, as its president, over Alfredo Deluque, of the U and candidate of the new government. In a narrow vote, Henríquez won 56 votes, in front of the 45 of Deluque and one in white. From minutes before midnight and until the 20th of July, the Uri…
President-elect Abelardo De La Espriella spoke after the election of Honorio Henríquez as president of the Senate, ensuring that he fully respected the autonomy of Congress and the independence of the branches of public power. He stated that he did not call congressmen to ask for votes or offer positions, contracts or any kind of prebenda to influence the decision. According to De La Espriella, the Senate’s board of directors was not elected mor…
After his election, Henríquez called for unity. He promised guarantees to all sectors of the legislature, both related to and opposed to the new government.
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