Petro and Uribe's Lawyer or Former Judge Surprise: Senate Fills a Key Quota in the Constitutional Court

“Money flowed for members of the Senate to obstruct the right of people who work for a better life. No institution is legitimate when it goes against the general interest,” said President Gustavo Petro last week, after the Legislative rejected his proposal to call a popular consultation. The clash between powers that has shaken Colombia, with a head of state pointing to the president of Congress and other legislators to commit a fraud, and these…

Without surprises and as La Silla had advanced it, Héctor Carvajal was elected judge of the Constitutional Court by the Senate of the tern that President Gustavo Petro had sent. Carbajal, the president’s lawyer before the CNE, was elected in a tighter than anticipated vote with 66 of 101 votes in the Plenary. As a secret vote, it is not public who elected him. But his allies included senators of the U, the Historical Pact and heads of traditiona…