De La Espriella Desists From Holding Swearing-in Ceremony at Military Base
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De la Espriella desists from holding swearing-in ceremony at military base
President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella has apparently given up trying to be sworn in before the military and asked Congress to allow the ceremony to take place in Cali, Colombia’s third largest city. In an address to the nation, De la Espriella said Sunday that volcanic activity made travel to Popayan, the capital of Cauca, made a “secure, well-organized” inauguration ceremony all but impossible. “For this reason, I respectfully ask the honora…
The President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella has given in his intention to take office on August 7 as the new head of state in a military garrison. On Tuesday he asked the Colombian Congress to approve the transfer of the ceremony he sought to do in the city of Popayán, in Cauca, to the capital of the neighboring department of Valle del Cauca. “I respectfully request the honorable House of Representatives, which still does not discuss the plenar…
Cali could become the scene of Colombia's next presidential possession after Abelardo De La Espriella announced that he would request to move the event from Bogotá.
The intention of President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella to take office on August 7th outside Bogotá and eventually, in a military base, opened one of the first political debates of the new Congress. Although the discussion began as a controversy over the place of the ceremony, it quickly gave rise to a more far-reaching reflection before the institutional and symbolic meaning of seeing a president assume the head of the civil state in a milita…
Abelardo de la Espriella asked Congress to transfer his presidential possession to Cali. He did so, as usual, in a network broadcast, not to mention whether his possession would take place in a military garrison and alluding to the activity of the Puracé volcano—which has been emitting ashes since Friday—as the reason for changing Cauca to the Valley, as approved by the Senate last week, and which was thanked by the President-elect. According to…
De la Espriella announces that his inauguration as president of Colombia will take place in Cali
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