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What the Cundinamarca Administrative Court seeks to establish is whether President Iván Duque failed to comply with the order to suspend the operating permit for US troops, without having submitted this matter to the Senate for consideration.
Therefore, according to CM & Noticias, the Court opened an incident of contempt and gave the head of state a period of three days to explain if you omitted this command.
The measure comes a day after opposition congressmen denounced President Duque for allegedly incurring contempt, because he authorized the operation of the US soldiers on August 27 despite the objections made to him from the Senate.
Although the National Government argued that the activities of 53 soldiers who arrived in the country with the purpose of supporting the fight against drug trafficking had been suspended, it was also said that the permission of Congress was not necessary to authorize said military maneuvers.
Another point made by the Government in the middle of this debate was that military activities are “advisory, training and training, and that for that reason the troops had the green light to activate.
Furthermore, because a group of 69 congressmen sent a letter supporting the operations, A letter that President Duque interpreted as an endorsement to activate them.
However, congressmen from the Alianza Verde party, Polo Democrático, FARC and from the list of the Decent, raised their voices in rejection of the resumption of these military actions and joined to file the complaint with the Cundinamarca Court.
One of the signatories is Senator Jorge Robledo, who in addition to sharing the Court’s ruling, on your Twitter account, said that President Duque “did not comply with the ruling.”
Administrative Court of Cundinamarca gave the president 3 days @IvanDuque to answer the contempt incident that we filed against him by 17 congressmen.
For not complying with the order of said Court on the troops of the US Colombia:
Failure: https: //t.co/PyR1ccNTKJ pic.twitter.com/h1ukHXcUDt– Jorge Enrique Robledo (@JERobledo) October 16, 2020
Thus, a ruling from the Head of State on the Court’s order is now expected, as he will have to explain if he ignored the ruling, as the opposition argues.
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