El Consejo Nacional Electoral Abusa de su poder

The investigation against President Gustavo Petro carried him out and brought many questions to the institution.

Photo: Oscar Perez

They abuse the magistrados of the Consejo Nacional Electoral (CNE) to obtain political speeches. Elegidos to respect the institution, now that he was deployed to prosecute the President Gustavo Petro, who was in charge of the Constitution and received a single natural law from the Commission for Enlightenment of the Chamber of Deputies. When it comes to having your presidential campaign financing irregularities investigated and approved, the wording of the charges against the mandate is far greater than what an administrative agency might have. The State Council also intervened in a discussion that was supposed to lead to a final result by the Constitutional Court Commission.

Due to the good intentions of the CNE magistrates, it is difficult to vote for an investigation against the president. I have chosen in various situations where I have acted with neutrality, in line with the power and reverence for the presidential figure, but he had to give up value because of the caution and the institutionality that he represented. Not with César Lorduy, for example, he decided at Blu Radio that the company could not be appointed President of the Republic, that's it. It is not necessary for an administrative act to be initiated in your right to object. If you have complaints, you must send them to the Acusación Commission.

Yesid Reyes, lawyer and columnist El EspectadorHe explained in this diary the importance of the figure of the president, with the aim of “avoiding the voluntary popular demonstration of electing a president, which can easily be exposed by the administrative or judicial authorities.” We are still in action. A judge with clear political pedigree, focused on opposition parties, decided to investigate after an elegiac mandate from the population. Everything good is a misuse.

It is about the fact that the irregular financing of the campaign was checked and verified, that the President Petro entered the Casa de Nariño and that the CNE was in charge of the investigation. Colombia, además, necesita saber qué ocurrió. The problem lies in the overstepping of functions: there is a risk that all members of the campaign will be affected, but not the President of the Republic. I have a political interest, lost the legitimacy of my actuary and fired in violation of an unpopular mandate that had to be reactivated based on his calls. The retórica de “golpe blando” had taken oxygen and the mandatary had decided that “if the gobiernos were turned, what was required of them”.

However, we believe that the institution is designed in such a way that this type of abuse, like the judges of the CNE, causes even more harm. I am convinced that the pesos and counterparties are fulfilling their function, that the legal disputes allow a decision by the Constitutional Court and that we have all resolved this scandal to clarify the current decisions of our political cartel decision. In any case, it's unfortunate that people do this. It is not allowed to appear as a presidential candidate. The responsibility lies with the judges of the CNE who vote for democracy. Another test is that this is a company that needs major reform.

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