Since it was approved in Congress, with a bang and with the accelerator fully pressed by the National Government, the future of the pension reform augured great challenges in legal matters, especially since several social sectors and the opposition political parties themselves, denounced that due process was violated and that they would take this to court in order to have it declared unconstitutional.
Proof of this is the lawsuit that has already been filed before the Constitutional Court.by the representative to the House, Oscar Villamizar, who in a 1,200-page document warns that this law “contradicts the constitutional and legal precepts indicated in each case, which regulate the legislative procedure for the approval of laws of the Republic, as attached in the document below.”
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In addition to asking for the entire law to be struck down, this congressman requested precautionary measures to prevent the implementation of this norm, before a decision is made, from generating effects on the system and putting workers’ savings at risk. For the plaintiff, there are serious flaws in the principles of deliberation, publicity and socialization in the process of the reform.
A new demand
Amid the hubbub over the monitoring being carried out the Attorney General’s Office to the process of implementing the pension reform, this week another lawsuit was announced by the group ‘No Con Mi Ahorro’, which warns of other legal inconsistencies in the reform and also calls for it to be dropped in its entirety.
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Jerome Sanabria, spokesperson for this group of citizens, said that after hard work in opposition to the reform, they are challenging four specific articles of the law, arguing that they constitute an expropriation of people’s savings, which contravenes the Constitution.
“Broadly speaking, we are going for the semi-contributory pillar and an expression of the contributory pillar.
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Basically the argument we are focusing on is that the reform violates both the freedom of choice of members as private property and it is an expropriation. We literally say it in those words and it is a demand,” he explained.
He added that “the only thing we need to do is file a lawsuit with the Constitutional Court, and for that we are collecting symbolic signatures from people who would be affected by the semi-contributory and contributory pillars of the pension reform. We will attach these signatures to our lawsuit when we file it with the courts.”
“You are probably wondering, how can I sign? It’s very simple, you can do it through a form that you will find on our social networks and on those of No Con Mi Ahorro. In the form, we ask you if you are in Bogotá and if you would like to participate in this event. We will contact you to share the details about how we will organize it and the date on which we will file the claim,” said Sanabria.
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This young woman concluded by reiterating her satisfaction with this achievement and asked for support in the form of prayers so that the Constitutional Court overturns the articles of the reform that it considers harmful, while reiterating the importance of this action to protect citizens’ savings, making it clear that we cannot give up.
As soon as this appeal is filed, the Court must study it and review whether it is unified with the claim that has already been filed or, on the contrary, a decision is made in a separate case. The pension reform will come into effect on July 1, 2025. Therefore, any announcement from the judicial branch is expected to be made before this time.
