Wearing t-shirts with the face of Daniel Quintero, the full cabinet of the suspended mayor had its first government council chaired by the mayor in charge, Juan Camilo Restrepo.
At the end of the meeting, the secretaries signed a letter rejecting Quintero’s suspension, calling it an “objective” to “destabilize the institutionality of our city.”
“President Duque and Uribe want to return EPM to the GEA, they want to prevent us from continuing to recover the public resources that corrupt contractors wanted to make citizens pay for the Hidroituango disaster,” the letter dictates.
The cabinet confirmed that it will not resign from the mayor’s office and that it will continue to “fully fulfill” its “functions within the framework of the Medellin Future development plan” and that it will oppose “instructions” that contradict said development plan.
Prior to the meeting, Juan Camilo Restrepo had publicly stated that officials who do not abide by his guidelines have two paths: renounce or be declared insubstantial.