Corruption Case Adds to Risk Court Will Nix Colombia Pension Law

Corruption Case Adds to Risk Court Will Nix Colombia Pension Law

Fresh arrests in a sweeping Colombian corruption probe are putting President Gustavo Petro’s marquee pension reform at even greater risk of being quashed by the nation’s top judges.

Yesterday, the president of the Senate, Efraín Cepeda, and the opposition senators Juan Pablo Gallo, José Luis Pérez and Marcos Daniel Pineda lodged a report calling for the denial of the appeal made by Senator Fabián Díaz to try to revive the discussion of the labor reform of the Petro government. In the document, Cepeda says that the appeal has no argument and cited three precedents of appeals that had not prospered. But he omitted one that di…

President Gustavo Petro attacked on Monday against those who would be seeking to stop the implementation of the pension reform, already approved in the Congress of the Republic. This, after its detractors claimed that such approval was given in the midst of corruption in the legislature. Opponents link the case to the scandals that have surrounded the presidents of the Senate; Iván Name and the Chamber; Andrés Calle, at the time the reform was a…

The pension reform. In the photo, from left to right: Jaime Dussán, president of Collpensions; María José Pizarro, senator; Gloria Inés Ramírez, Minister of Labor and Iván Name, president of the Senate. Photo: MinTrabajo. The captures of former presidents of the Senate and the House of Representatives, Iván Name and Andrés Calle, respectively, aggravated doubts about the legality of pension reform of the Gustavo Petro government, the only one th…

Two weeks later, the Commission's working senators repeated the discussions because they had to analyse more amendments and, in addition, lacked some opinions on the project.