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In the midst of a broad consensus of all parties, including the opposition, the plenary of the House of Representatives approved the entire article of the reform of the National Electoral Code, with which the electoral norms of Colombia that were in force since the year 1986.
In total, 2,000 proposals were analyzed, which led to the law having 273 articles, being one of the ones that has had the most agreement among all communities, despite being highly criticized, especially by the opposition.
In this sense, the coordinator rapporteur, representative to the Chamber, Alejandro Vega, affirmed that all the benches were listened insistently. “We have carried out a democratic and guaranteeist debate, listening to all considerations always in front of the country,” he stressed.
Vega highlighted, among some of the approved points, the guarantees of participation, respect for the autonomy of the parties, the elimination of extraordinary powers and political censorship.
Another of the speakers, the representative to the Chamber Juanita Goebertus, stressed that the reform solves specific problems of the electoral process: the electoral residence, there will be only one form
e-14, electoral day was extended by one hour (8 am to 5 pm) and there will be direct jurors from the census.
The representative to the House, Cesar Lorduy, commented that the law incorporates gender parity. From now on, the parties for all corporate elections will have to integrate their lists with 50% women.
Goebertus estimated that the online voting proposal could be “stopped”, the powers of the president to reform the staff of the Registrar’s Office were taken away, the repeal of the guarantee law and the precarious auditing model was strengthened.
Among the bad issues of the reform, according to the representative, was the increase in bureaucracy in the Registrar’s Office to appoint registrars (more than a thousand in the country), the elimination of the registry of contributors and suppliers and the discretion of the registrar to determine the implementation of electronic voting.
The Vice Minister of the Interior, Daniel Palacios, He concluded that this was not an easy project to discuss, “but today Colombia is making progress in reforming the electoral code that is needed.
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