US EditionBackground From the Constitutional Court Indicates that the Government Cannot Convene a Popular Consultation by Decree
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The Colombian government's attempt to convene a popular consultation to make its labor reform tangible through the ballot box has found a new argument against it. A Constitutional Court reporter has indicated that, according to its jurisprudence, the executive cannot call it by decree. Hours earlier, Interior Minister Armando Benedetti argued that he could do so if the Senate did not vote. Representative Katherine Miranda, a criticism of the gov…
Minister of the Interior, Armando Benedetti. Photo: MinInterior. Various voices rose in protest after the announcement of the Minister of the Interior, Armando Benedetti, about the intention of the Government to convene a popular consultation by decree, despite the fact that the proposal, established on May 1, was filed in the Senate of the Republic. The minister argues that the Congress has not yet formally ruled on the initiative, due to a sup…
The representative to the House, Katerine Miranda, published in the afternoon a statement in which she said, citing a document from the Constitutional Court, that the government could not present a new proposal for popular consultation with the questions of the consultation that had been denied a few days ago. She also mentioned that, according to that document, the government could not cite the consultation by decree, as suggested by the Minist…
The High Court responded to a request for concept by Representative Katherine Miranda
The Minister of the Interior, Armando Benedetti, questioned the validity of the reply that the representative received to the House, Katherine Miranda, from the Constitutional Court, on the impossibility of convening a popular consultation without favorable prior concept of the Senate. “The Constitutional Court expresses itself through constitutional decisions in its full chamber, not through the auxiliary of Assistant 2 of the reporter (...) Th…
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