Although the ultimate model of the Colombian National Development Plan 2022-2026 (PND) submitted by the National Government to the Congress eradicated the extraordinary powers given to President Gustavo Petro to switch the Superintendencies of Industry and Commerce and Corporations and the opportunity of liquidating electrical energy firms, different ‘superpowers’ have been added and maintained.
The 166-page doc establishes 14 extraordinary powers for the pinnacle of state.
This implies that as soon as the PND is regulation, Gustavo Petro has six months to manage the choice makes use of of the coca plant, hashish, and the medicinal, therapeutic, and scientific makes use of of psychoactive substances.
Also, to accumulate freely or onerously the infrastructure akin to the Hospital San Juan de Dios-Instituto Materno Infantil and create a public entity of the manager department to make use of such infrastructure to supply well being providers and analysis.
Likewise, Petro would have the facility:
- to create, break up, merge, merge, suppress, combine, or modify the authorized nature of entities of the manager department;
- to switch and decide the targets and organizational construction of the entities ensuing from such creations, mergers, or splits and of these entities to which the features of the identical are transferred.
And on this line to find out their project or linkage.
In addition:
- to switch the targets, features, natural construction, and authorized regime of the manager department entities;
- to make the mandatory budgetary modifications to finance the working and funding bills mandatory to satisfy the features assigned to the created entities.
Similarly, the PND, whose articles will probably be debated by the legislature, would enable President Petro:
- to capitalize on the businesses created, merged, or break up;
- to create, suppress or modify the authorized nature of funds with or with out authorized persona or autonomous patrimonies.
To which it provides two extra extraordinary powers:
- The first is “to purge and modify the current regulations to establish the instruments required to implement the policies of reindustrialization and strengthening of the popular economy, including the definition of non-tax incentives, mechanisms to promote alliances to attract sustainable foreign direct investment and technology transfer, assignment and management of assets and financing schemes for the strengthening of production”.
- And the second is to create a system of transfers or subsidies in money or sort to help the inhabitants in conditions of poverty and vulnerability, derived from hostile conditions attributable to the materialization of social dangers, financial dangers, or pure disasters, in addition to to switch the packages Families and Youth in Action and combine them to the switch system created within the improvement of those powers.
With data from Bloomberg