“We welcome your ‘Regional Dialogues’ initiative, so we already express the will of the governors to work together for a country, which has its regions as its essence,” answered Héctor Olimpo Espinosapresident of the Board of Directors of the FND and governor of Sucre.
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From the regions and the National Federation of Departments @FNDCol We salute the newly elected President and Vice President of the Republic, @petrogustavo
Y @FranciaMarquezMWe are ready to team up with you for the benefit of Colombians in the territories🇨🇴 pic.twitter.com/JzO1JQupSP
— FND – National Federation of Departments (@FNDCol) June 19, 2022
Héctor Olimpo Espinosa, president of the National Federation of Departments
In addition, Espinosa asked the next ruler “strengthen decentralization” through tools that allow “balancing territorial finances for the benefit of the urgent unsatisfied needs of all our regions“.
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“We also celebrate the positive announcements of Engineer Rodolfo Hernández, who with great popular support comes to serve as a senator of the Republic, in the sense of contributing to the new government, for the good of the country,” he said.
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