Several political leaders from Medellin led a meeting this Thursday in which an alliance was sealed to monitor the investment of public resources in the district.
In the meeting held in the morning hours in the San Lucas neighborhood, El Poblado, members of different political fringes of the city participated, such as former councilman Simón Molina, former mayoral candidate Juan David Valderrama, the deputy of Antioquia for the Movement Dignity Luis Eduardo Peláez, former Senate candidate Julia Correa and Andrés Rodríguez, one of the leaders of the Pact for Medellín who recently promoted the recall movement.
Although the meeting on August 11 is hardly the first, several of the attendees agreed that it is seen as a first step to create a more robust platform that takes care of Medellín’s public resources, an effort to monitor public management and make a greater counterweight to the municipal administration.
“Several people with different ideologies and visions of the city were gathered, but we agree that Medellín is in a deep institutional crisis caused by the bad government of Daniel Quintero. We are people who are especially concerned regarding how the city’s public resources are being managed and invested,” said former councilman Simón Molina.
For his part, former candidate Juan David Valderrama specified that among the points addressed at the meeting, concern regarding the situation of programs such as Buen Comienzo, the infrastructure crisis of public schools, problems in sports venues, the increase in garbage accumulation sites, among others.
“The things that are not working well in the city concern us all. That is why we met various sectors to talk and think that we were united as an opposition, despite being so many sectors of such diverse ideologies,” Valderrama said.
Deputy Luis Eduardo Peláez described the meeting as “very fruitful” and explained that, outside the photo, there is a larger working group that is being formed to exercise political control, which ranges between 80 and 100 people from different organizations. and groups.
“It is regarding protecting public resources in this year and a half. This group wants to carry out joint actions around political and citizen control in the face of acts of possible corruption by Daniel Quintero,” said the deputy.
This Thursday’s meeting takes place in the midst of a political environment marked by the imminent arrival of the 2023 territorial elections, which have already begun to shake the board in all political spectrums of Medellín and the department.
As EL COLOMBIANO has been telling since last June, the names of at least four councilors and one deputy have already appeared in the rattle for the mayor’s office, such as Albert Corredor, Luis Bernardo Vélez, Alfredo Ramos, Simón Molina and Luis Peláez.
After this meeting, it is not ruled out that the work of political control of the current administration will also serve as a meeting point to create a joint strategy that aligns common points in the face of the coming contest.
