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Abelardo Objects to CD Law Prohibiting Lowering Requirements for Public Office

Summary by La Silla Vacía
What are we talking about? For the first time since he took office, President Abelardo de la Espriella opposed a law that had already been passed by Congress: the one that prohibits reducing the requirements for access to public office. The Democratic Center Senator Hernán Cadavid’s bill was approved in the Senate (245 of 2024) and the House (056 of 2024). To become a law he only lacked the President’s signature. The reasons: unconstitutionality…

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The ultra-right executive objects to a bill, already passed in Congress, which prohibits the reduction of requirements for access to public office

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What are we talking about? For the first time since he took office, President Abelardo de la Espriella opposed a law that had already been passed by Congress: the one that prohibits reducing the requirements for access to public office. The Democratic Center Senator Hernán Cadavid’s bill was approved in the Senate (245 of 2024) and the House (056 of 2024). To become a law he only lacked the President’s signature. The reasons: unconstitutionality…

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The initiative sought to prevent entities from reducing the requirements for these positions, however there were grounds for constitutionality

Abelardo de la Espriella, president of Colombia. Photo: MinInterior. President Abelardo de la Espriella for the first time overturned a law passed by Congress from the beginning of his government. The initiative sought to prevent the requirements for access to managerial positions in the public sector and in companies with state participation. This is House Bill 056 of 2024 and Senate Bill 245 of 2024, authored by the then representative and now…

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La Silla Vacía broke the news on Friday, August 21, 2026.
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