The initiative will allow politicians to change parties without being disqualified.
Installation of the ordinary sessions of the Congress of the Republic.
Camila Díaz – RCN Radio.
In an intense day the House of Representatives approved in the fourth debate the controversial project that will allow politicians to change parties without being disqualified and proposes some changes to the Constitution.
The proposal will modify articles 107, 108 and 162 of its rules so that members of public corporations change their parties and the first of them talks about congressmen.
The first of the modifications speaks of politicians being able to resign from their party only once in four years without having to actually renounce their seat.
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The initiative defended by the Liberal Party states in its final presentation that “Whoever, being a member of a public corporation, decides to run in the next election, for a different party or significant group of citizens, may only once in the four-year period and up to one month before the first day of registration of the next election, resign from the party or significant group of citizens for which he was elected, without having to resign.
It is also made clear that the National Electoral Council “will recognize Legal Status of parties, political movements and significant groups of citizens. These may obtain them with a vote of no less than three percent (3%) of the votes validly cast in the national territory in elections for the House of Representatives and differentially of five percent (5%) of the votes for the Senate.”
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Representative Carlos Ardila, who defended the proposal in the House of Representatives, assured that “it was a broad debate thate took place in the First Committee of the House of Representatives, two more articles were included. One of those new articles spoke of mandatory voting in the next two elections and also contemplated another article on related actions.s with double militancy”.
The initiative remained alive for the next part of the legislature that begins in February 2025. The first four of eight debates were completed.
