The Constitutional Court ruled in favor of Alexander López, and could return to the Senate

The Constitutional Court issued A sentence in favor of the current delegate attorney for territorial governance, Alexander López Mayaand opened the door to occupy his seat as a senator.

The High Court studied a guardianship action that the member of the Historical Pact filed to claim that he would not make a double militancy incurred As the State Council said at the time, which took the position in Congress after reviewing a nullity action and ratified its position in two instances in which he reviewed the guardianship.

The nullity was based on pointing to López to have supported To Jorge Édgar Flórez in his campaign to the House of Representatives By Santander. Flórez, who was not elected, belonged to the Green Alliance, not to the pact.

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Now the Court, COn presentation by Judge Vladimir Fernández —The former legal secretary of the presidency who arrived at the Court after being terminated by President Gustavo Petro, “defended the fundamental right to choose and be elected that López crossed out of violent.

Minutes after the decision, the Alternative Democratic Democratic Polo Party celebrated and announced in its X account: “Alexander López will once again be a senator of the Republic. The @Cconstitutional proved us right. It was found that the penalty for double militancy was not justifiedwhich made his departure from Congress unfair. “

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López was the president of the Pole Party from 2021 to 2024. He was also a member of the House of Representatives between 2002 and 2006and director of the National Planning Department in the Petro government.

His passage through Congress was interrupted in 2023, when the State Council annulled his seat. He is currently part of the Attorney General’s Office, where he appointed him the head of the control entity, Gregorio Eljach, Shortly after his choice by the Senate.

Alexander López is a lawyer at the San Buenaventura University with specializations in public policies and social business administration of the State of the universities Javeriana and Jorge Tadeo Lozano.