Statement by the President-elect Gustavo Petro regarding the board of directors ecopetrol, which made changes to extend the tenure of members to four years, has generated a number of comments and criticisms. Given this, the former national president of the Workers’ Union, Edwin Palma, spoke on 6AM Hoy por Hoy.
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“This is an issue that has to do with ethics, above all because ecopetrol has a code of conduct that is monitored by international and national standards, by the Superintendence of Industry and Commerce. What Luis Echeverri and the board of directors have done systematically is not compatible with those ethical principles.”
“What is happening with Ecopetrol has already been resolved by the Board of Directors. They needed to set up a president friend of Duque and since they were unable to do so in the current board they had to change the board, where they put Bayón, the financial vice president and used that new board of directors and put a president who comes from being an independent member of the board of directors from Ecopetrol. So it is not at all strange that the president-elect makes the adjustments and adopts the policy that corresponds to him, “he added.
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