President Gustavo Petro has missed some of his meetings, sometimes for health reasons and other times for time reasons, as happened with the appointment I had with the taxi drivers’ union to discuss the price of a gallon of gasoline. For unknown reasons, your assistance was canceled at the last minute, so the president appointed the Minister of Transportation, Guillermo Reyes.
However, the taxi drivers did not like this news at all, so they got upset and in the auditorium where they were they raised their voices with great anger. Proof of this was the video shared by the senator of the Democratic Center, María Fernanda Cabal, who criticized the president’s actions, stating: “Annoyance of taxi representatives for Petro’s non-attendance at the meeting scheduled for today. One thing was in campaign and another in the exercise of power”.
Annoyance of taxi representatives for Petro’s non-attendance at the meeting scheduled for today.
One thing was in campaign and another in the exercise of power. pic.twitter.com/RwTfaoKFll
– María Fernanda Cabal (@MariaFdaCabal) September 29, 2022
Phrase that he launched as a taunt, because many politicians when they are campaigning make many promises to the citizens, but when they are elected, they fail.
Associations such as Sitaxibog, Sinaltax, Telecoper-Fenaltax, Free Taxis, Fenalco and Fenaltax were at the meeting. It is worth mentioning that minTransporte had stated in advance: “The President of the Republic ratifies his intention to open the doors to a dialogue, to a conversation; we are going to do that on the 29th of this month at 3:00 pm; we are going to do it through representatives of all the departments of the country and of the federations”, but for reasons still unknown, the head of state did not arrive.