LatinNews Daily - 24 October 2025

*Colombia’s government has presented a bill to hold a referendum to form a constituent assembly tasked with overhauling the 1991 constitution. The bill states that “the reforms that the country needs cannot be delivered through legislation or a referendum, because they would substitute the current constitution as they represent major changes to the system”. The 71-member constituent assembly would consist of 44 elected delegates, half of whom would be women, with the remaining seats reserved for groups such as afro-Colombians, indigenous people, peasant farmers, conflict victims, trade unions, young people, Colombians living abroad, LGBTQI+ people, and mothers who are the sole breadwinner for their family. The referendum proposal is likely to face stiff resistance in congress, which has blocked or watered down several of President Gustavo Petro’s reform proposals.

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