The Colombian Congress rejected the second re-election of Uribe

The Colombian Congress on Wednesday rejected the proposed constitutional reform that would allow the president Uribe a second reelection in 2010.

After a heated discussion among members of the Conservative Party after two votes, the House of Representatives denied this possibility, according to an official communique.

In any case, Uribe could be eligible for re-election if a second call a popular referendum and win this option, whose conclusion has already been collected the necessary signatures.

Some sectors

Uribe had to pose an article on the political reform debate that Congress, which would enable the current president to run the elections in 2014, but the article was rejected.

The Liberal Party

Sank the initiative of Article 19 of the Political Reform to point out that the continuation "of authority in one individual has frequently been the end of democratic governments."

Liberals cited the Charter of the Congress of Angostura's liberator Simn Bolvar in which notes that "repeated elections are essential in popular systems, because nothing is as dangerous as leaving a long time to stay the same citizen in power" .

For his part, also opposition Alternative Democratic Pole (PDA) expressed its "satisfaction" with the decision of the House of Representatives rejected that initiative.

Option of a referendum

The party of

The U of Uribe, considered that the best thing is to exclude the issue of re-election of the political reform debate that Congress and raise it in another way, through a referendum.

Under the current constitution, amended in 2005 at the initiative of Uribe, a president can only apply to the Head of State for a second term.

For this reason, it is only to Uribe the option of convening an inquiry and make available his popular candidacy for 2010.

The Colombian president in 2005 and managed to carry out a reform of the Colombian Constitution, which was adopted by the Constitutional Court, to be able to stand for his second term in 2006.

Uribe was elected president of Colombia in 2002, for a term of four years.