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Centurión questioned Cartes over the Colorado Party internal dispute and rejected changes to the IPS emergency bill
The dissident lawmaker said the ANR leader moved too quickly by promoting a 2028 candidacy and warned about the electoral impact of the dispute. He also announced he would vote against the amended version in the Senate on the IPS emergency measure.
Dissident Colorado Party lawmaker Daniel Centurión questioned Horacio Cartes for having announced Juan Carlos Baruja as a possible running mate for Pedro Alliana in 2028 before the municipal elections. According to ABC Color, the legislator said the ANR president “made a mistake” by not waiting for that electoral round to pass and considered that the decision exposed a new tension within Honor Colorado.
According to the outlet, Centurión interpreted the episode as reinforcing Cartes’ style of leadership within the party and the Colorado administration. He also said the internal friction deepened after Alliana maintained that he would announce his vice-presidential candidate only after the municipal elections, a position that, always according to ABC Color, was undermined by Cartes’ subsequent announcement.
Centurión also said that any disagreement or party division could hurt the electoral chances of October 4. In that context, he called for maturity from the ruling party leaders and said that, despite the dispute, they would end up seeking an understanding because of the interests they share within the movement.
In another section, the lawmaker rejected the bill on the emergency of the Social Security Institute, as amended by the Senate. According to ABC Color, he questioned that the original initiative, designed to speed up purchases of supplies, medicines and services, was altered with articles that would allow limits on deposits of funds in banks to be exceeded.
The outlet said Centurión linked those changes to a benefit for Ueno Bank, where the IPS already holds approximately G. 2.2 trillion. The lawmaker announced his rejection of the proposal and said the text had lost its original purpose of helping the operation of the social security system.
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