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Now President of the Constitutional Court Will Not Be Able to Decide on Economic Emergency: He Accepted Impediment

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President of the Constitutional Court, Jorge Enrique Ibáñez. Photo: X La Sala Plena of the Constitutional Court unanimously supported the impediment of Judge Jorge Enrique Ibáñez Najar, president of the court, to decide on the economic emergency of the Government. The jurist was challenged by the Presidency of the Republic last week, who questioned his impartiality after giving statements to a media outlet about the Government's decision and the…
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This decision was taken after the analysis of the formal statement of impediment that the same judge presented to the Full Chamber

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Jorge Enrique Ibáñez was left out of the files that analyze the legality of the economic emergency decreed by Gustavo Petro in December. The eight judges of the Plena Chamber voted unanimously to accept the impediment that the president of the Constitutional Court himself had made days ago. The exclusion of the judge includes two fundamental files: the one that studies the basic decree of the emergency, under the responsibility of Carlos Camargo…

President of the Constitutional Court, Jorge Enrique Ibáñez. Photo: X La Sala Plena of the Constitutional Court unanimously supported the impediment of Judge Jorge Enrique Ibáñez Najar, president of the court, to decide on the economic emergency of the Government. The jurist was challenged by the Presidency of the Republic last week, who questioned his impartiality after giving statements to a media outlet about the Government's decision and the…

The decision was taken unanimously by the Full Chamber of the Constitutional Court, which today began to study the scope of the government’s decree of special measures. A few days ago, Judge Jorge Enrique Ibáñez declared himself prevented from participating in the study, after the Presidency of the Republic filed a challenge against him. Thus the discussion in the Constitutional Court progresses. The background study will still take time, at lea…

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La Silla Vacía broke the news in on Wednesday, January 28, 2026.
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