Francia Márquez meets the requirements to receive the Solidarity Income, confirmed the director of the National Planning Department

In addition to the controversy over the solidarity income subsidies received by the vice-presidential candidate Francia Márquez was joined by the statements by the director of the National Planning Department (DNP), who assured, in the last few hours, that the lawyer and social leader did meet the parameters for receiving such government aid.

In dialogue with the RCN Radio station, Alejandra Borrero, head of the DNP, announced that in 2020, when the national government began looking for the most needy families to give them the money, they identified that the family nucleus of the current formula for the presidency of Gustavo Petro was in Sisbén tres and that is why it was suitable to receive the money.

“At the time when the Sisbén survey was conducted on France and her family, she met the conditions to be able to be in Sisbén III,” said Borrero, who reminded Colombians that if they are beneficiaries of government aid they are obliged to inform the State if economic conditions change.

Of course, she again assured that the social leader met all the requirements established by the Iván Duque government to deliver the money that helped the poorest families in the context of the covid-19 pandemic.

The DNP director's clarifications would be linked to what La FM revealed that Francia Márquez, while benefiting from the Solidarity Income, owned two apartments in Cali, whose prices were 75 million pesos each.

According to the media, the registration to Sisbén of the leader of the Soy porque somos movement did not occur in her city of residence, but in another region of the country, which would have allowed her to be a beneficiary of that State aid, even though, supposedly, she did not need it.

According to the broadcaster, Márquez's apartments have a swimming pool, parking and she would have omitted that she owned these properties; it is worth remembering that Sisbén could also give up subsidies to those who have properties and monthly income that allow them to survive.

In response to the controversy, the candidate has repeatedly said that she was worthy of the subsidy due to the conditions of poverty she faces. “I deserve it like any other Colombian, because I haven't been a rich woman and I never said it. I have been an impoverished woman, who alone has brought my children forward like many women heads of household. I have worked in the mines to get my children ahead, today I am here as a candidate,” said the aspirant to succeed Marta Lucía Ramírez during an interview with the Blu Radio station.

In addition, France indicated that it took ten years to finish his study: “To study at university I endured hunger, I took a little time because I had to pay one semester and stop another to save and collect. It took me ten years to finish.”

According to Márquez, in 2019 she received the program subsidy when she was unemployed and the reasons for the delivery the following year because she did not apply for it.

Likewise, France said: “Once I saw that I had $400,000 in my account, I thought that I had been paid for some of the work I had done, when I later received a message from the Agrarian Bank saying that they had made an appropriation of $160,000 and I didn't ask for it. In 2019 I didn't have a salary, I went home and like many Colombians I was unemployed,” he added.

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