Duque argued that the judge of the Republic cannot tell a president what to object or not, “because that would be violating the Colombian Constitution,” and will sign the change to the Guarantees Law.
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After a judge ordered to suspend the processing of the Guarantees Law, President Iván Duque confirmed that he will sign the Budget Law and the article related to this regulation will be included.
Duque argued that the judge of the Republic cannot tell a president what to object or what not to object.
It states that this would be a violation of the Colombian constitution.
“A judge of the Republic cannot tell a president what he should or should not object to, because that would be violating the Colombian Constitution. We signed the law and we signed it with this article, ”said Duque.
He pointed out that “obviously all the corresponding judicial process will be carried out in the debate on that article,” he said.
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Therefore, he stated that the law will be signed despite the fact that the Third Administrative Court of the Bogotá Circuit ordered to refrain from applying the modification made to the guarantees law.
They seek “to guarantee the rights to due process, equality and impartiality in the electoral process.”
The decision has unleashed all kinds of reactions from those who approve of the decision, as well as from those who are against it.
What restricted the law as it was
The Senate of the Republic approved in the plenary session the Article 125 that modifies the Law of GuaranteesThis raises the suspension of the first paragraph of article 38 of Law 996 of 2005.
This decision leads national entities and territorial entities to enter into administrative and inter-administrative agreements for the execution of public resources.
The approval of this article “violates the principle of unity of matter and modifies a Statutory Law by ordinary law, thus violating the Constitution,” lawyers warn.
In this case, the eyes are fixed on the Constitutional Court so that it does not delay in the revision of that law.
They ask him not to delay once it is approved, “so that mayors, governorships and other national entities do not have time to do what they want with hiring and resources.”
Although the so-called ‘vote buying’, electoral corruption, continues to be recorded in the country, the Guarantees Law had managed to stop the bleeding of public resources.
In the municipalities and departments in electoral times, this worries.
Hiring outside of works or personnel had been stopped on those election dates.
These are the restrictions (Read here) of the Guarantees Law, which has been in force (and its modification was approved).
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