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Andean Group - April 2014 (ISSN 1741-4466)
POLITICS: The never-ending Petro saga exposes judicial shortcomings
“Legal anarchy” is how some commentators in Colombia describe the situation affecting the mayoralty of Bogotá. Just a month after the incumbent, Gustavo Petro, was controversially dismissed by President Juan Manuel Santos, after judicial ratification of an order by the prosecutor general [RA-14-03], Petro was reinstated by Santos after a local court found that his political rights may have been violated. If the political undertones surrounding the Petro case had already rendered it a major talking point ahead of the 25 May presidential election, the legal uncertainties inherent in the judicial system, and re-exposed by the case, could make judicial reform a key campaign issue.
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