Colombia's Petro asks cabinet to resign ahead of reshuffle, sources say 

Colombian President Gustavo Petro asked his cabinet ministers to resign ahead of a planned reshuffle, two sources told Reuters and Infobae on Tuesday.  

The decision comes after the leftist leader said he lost his party’s coalition in Congress and his controversial health reform did not meet the necessary quorum. 

"The political coalition agreed as a majority has ended today due to decisions of some party presidents," Petro said in a message via Twitter late on Tuesday.

"Such a situation leads us to a rethinking of the government," he said in a subsequent Tweet.

According to the sources, Petro asked his chief of staff Laura Sabaria to ask all of the heads of the executive portfolio to turn in their official letter of resignation. 

As a result, some of Petro’s 18 ministers could lose their position in the reshuffling, while others might be moved to different portfolios. The sources believe, for example, that the current Minister of the Interior Alfonso Prada, Chancellor Alvaro Leyva, and the head of the Defense portfolio Ivan Velasquez will be placed in charge of different portfolios. 

The president reviewed the goals and the level of execution with each of the portfolio heads and realized that all of them were below the goals established since the beginning of his administration, reported Infobae. 

"I think that the government should declare an emergency, emergency means that day and night government teams are working on how to lower the price of food, on how to give land to the peasantry, on how to have more food sown and, therefore, lower prices, whoever is not capable of doing this has no place in our government because this is a fundamental point of peace,” the president said.