In a short press release the government denied a complaint filed before the Supreme Court by former Superintendent of Notaries and Registration Manuel Cuello Baute that 34 Congressmen received 79 notaries after voting in favor of Uribe’s 2006 re-election. The government says that the notaries were assigned due to their formation and affinity to the due administration. Cuello Baute clarifyed in his own press release that he had only accused only two congressmen and for reasons other than what the Colombian media is reporting. What is the game? (more…)
On 2009/06/28, In Politics, By Albeiro Rodas
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So far President Alvaro Uribe remains in silence before the idea of a third reelection. Of course, that is what is expected, because technically the National Constitution of Colombia does not contemplate a third reelection. The article that allowed the second and consecutive presidencial reelection was introduced just in 2005 and it was the first time in Colombia in many years that a President goes for a second term. (more…)
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