politics
May 8, 2026
Burial of the Ministry of Equality on the third try?
A month and a half before the ordinary sessions of Congress end, and before the deadline to correct the errors with which it was created expires, the Ministry of Equality remains what it has been since its foundation: a promise without substance, a bureaucracy without results, and a symptom of how Gustavo Petro's government confuses the State with a tool for political distribution.
TL;DR
- The Ministry of Equality has been a 'promise without substance' and a 'bureaucracy without results' since its inception.
- It was created primarily to provide a position for Vice President Francia Márquez in the cabinet, rather than for programmatic reasons.
- The ministry has had four ministers in less than three years, with several facing criticism or leaving due to dissatisfaction with the entity's direction.
- Despite managing billions of pesos, its budget execution rate is only 8.8%, with a large portion transferred to a parallel fund without clear outcomes.
- The Ministry's creation was declared unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court due to a procedural error, with a deadline to rectify it approaching.
- Its functions overlapped with existing entities like Prosperidad Social, further indicating its political rather than programmatic purpose.
- The article suggests that the ministry's social functions could be absorbed by existing, experienced entities.