How the Duque regime all but suspended democracy in Colombia
by Adriaan Alsema
October 20, 2021
Colombia’s increasingly authoritarian President Ivan Duque is set to suspend electoral guarantees in his regime’s latest and most blatant attack on democracy.
Duque’s expressed intention to suspend the “Guarantees Law” makes fair elections unlikely as the initiative throws the door wide open for fraud.
The suspension is “grossly unconstitutional,” according to legal experts and electoral observers, and suspends the law that seeks to prevent the use of public funds in election campaigns.
One vote away from almost absolute power
The only thing that stands between Duque and almost absolute power is the Constitutional Court where the regime is one seat short of a majority, for now.
The Constitutional Court tests the legality of all legislation and is the only body that could still reverse the suspension of the Guarantees Law.
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