Just as it happened in Mexico and during the swearing-in of Elizabeth Becerra Cornejo as the new magistrate of the second section of the Council of State, Gustavo Petro, president of Colombiaraised the possibility of the popular election of judges in the South American country.
“I believe that all institutions in the country must make it clearer that The only one who has power in Colombia is the people and that what every public servant has to do is hand over power to the people,” the president mentioned in his speech from the Casa de Nariño.
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The Colombian president mentioned that on many occasions, the will of the people, which is expressed through voting, many times it is not heard and that, probably, at some point society is going to get tired of being ignored.
“Mexico has felt it so much that it has already proposed it: the popular election of judges. I don’t know if it’s the way. That doesn’t happen just because It happens because the people see that the desire for change Legal doctrines do not allow it, which must flow with life. “Institutions are not static,” said Gustavo Petro.
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These statements, despite the fact that a proposal has not been officially presented, have already begun to cause an echo within the coffee-growing country, since the Corporation of Judges and Magistrates of Colombia declared that such action would mean a “direct threat to democracy and an attack on the division of powers.”
Currently, Gustavo Petro is under the eye of the hurricane because the National Electoral Council (CNE) of Colombia launched an investigation against the president for allegedly violating spending limits during his 2022 campaign.
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