2024-01-12 04:54:28
Given the news regarding the excessive expenses of the First Lady, Verónica Alcocer, which sparked a controversy, the Presidency spoke out on the matter with a statement in which it clarified the functions and social tasks of Alcocer, while the officials not only carry out exclusive tasks for her.
As revealed by La Silla Vacía, Alcocer has a personal makeup and wardrobe artist, a professional photographer, her best friend and a personal advisor. Some of them have higher salaries than a minister and are hired through public entities. Salaries would be between 10 and 30 million pesos per month.
The Administrative Department of the Presidency of the Republic (Dapre) is the one that assists the president, in addition to its regulations that “some agencies that make up the structure of the Presidency have specific functions to provide administrative, security and protocol assistance to the President.” president and his family.” | Photo: Presidency
In the letter they detail that Alcocer, as the spouse of the president, Gustavo Petro, fulfills a social function “according to the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court, the Council of State and the Department of Public Service Administration, empowering her to perform protocol tasks and lead initiatives in matters of social assistance and public charity,” the statement indicates.
In the text they also explain that as first lady it is her duty to “address issues such as poverty, education or health” in addition to supporting specific causes, so her objective is to recover the social fabric.
And they point out that it is precisely the Administrative Department of the Presidency of the Republic (Dapre) that assists the president, in addition to its regulations that “some agencies that make up the structure of the Presidency have specific functions to provide administrative assistance, of security and protocol to the president and his family.”
“Likewise, the Administrative Department of the Presidency of the Republic (Dapre), within the framework of its functions, hires an entire communications team that supports the management and disseminates the activities of the Presidency of the Republic and the presidential family,” states the document.
Fady Flórez, makeup and wardrobe artist from Alcocer, who since 2021, in the midst of the presidential pre-campaign, met the first lady and has accompanied her to practically all events since then. | Photo: AFP or licensors
Those hired do not only work for the first lady
Given the contracts and accrued expenses, the Presidency indicated in the statement that “Mauricio Vélez, Fady Flórez and Mrs. Carolina Plata do not provide exclusive services for the First Lady of the Nation.”
Flórez’s contract raises questions. Since the end of 2022, he has received fees through the company Savi, a cooperative that has an outsourced agreement with RTVC.
Neither the Casa de Nariño nor the ministries give reason for the delay in appointments in various entities that are attached to the Executive. Furthermore, there are constant changes that prevent stability. | Photo: GUILLERMO TORRES
For this reason, they clarify in the document that some of the professionals are hired by “RTVC through the Audiovisual Services Cooperative (SAVI), created in 2004 to provide radio and television production services, in order to meet the needs missionary in terms of content production and logistics of different public and private entities.”
And regarding his work, they specify that Fady Flórez is not only in charge of the image of Alcocer and Petro but also advises and directs “the image concept of each of the presenters of the different programs and audiovisual products of the Presidency of the Republic.” .
As revealed by La Silla Vacía, Alcocer has a personal makeup and wardrobe artist, a professional photographer, her best friend and a personal advisor. | Photo: Presidency
Regarding Alcocer’s best friend, the statement specifies the functions that Plata has, such as being in charge of “protocol and logistics in the development of the different events and receptions of the Presidency of the Republic.”
Support for carrying out different events and formal receptions for the president and his family, as well as “leading and managing before DAPRE all the logistical and administrative requirements required in the Private Houses.”
Regarding Mauricio Vélez, who, although he is the photographer of the first lady, is also the photographer of President Petro, they detail that he has several positions, among them: “Audiovisual director of the news program Avanza el Cambio, Director of the Entrevistas con Alma de País program, Director of the Government with the People program.
Regarding María Antonia Pardo, manager of International Affairs and Government of Procolombia, for which she earns a salary of 28 million pesos, that is, more than a minister who earns 24.2 million, they indicated that she has a “direct relationship with the entity.” with the Foreign Ministry, the Colombian embassies in the world and other countries in Colombia.”
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