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Weekly Report - 13 June 2024 (WR-24-23)
COLOMBIA: Constituent assembly by the backdoor?
Colombia’s former president Juan Manuel Santos (2012-2018) has come out all guns blazing after former foreign minister Álvaro Leyva contended that President Gustavo Petro would be perfectly within his rights to convene a constituent assembly without any need for congressional approval. Leyva’s proposal was politically incendiary. Petro first raised the prospect of a constituent assembly in March to overhaul state institutions amid frustration that his reform agenda was being stymied by congress. Despite Petro’s assertions to the contrary, the political opposition immediately interpreted this as an attempt to reform the constitution to enable him to stand for re-election.
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