Colombian Prosecutor General’s Office calls for the annulment of Petro’s law to negotiate with terrorist groups.
Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office has sent a document to the Constitutional Court requesting that it declare null the “total peace” law passed by President Gustavo Petro’s government to facilitate negotiations with terrorist groups.
“The Constitutional Court should declare the unconstitutionality of the totality of Law 2272 of 2022 to ensure the supremacy of the Political Charter and compliance with its rulings, without prejudice to the modulation of the effects of the decision against the provisions whose immediate expulsion from the legal system may generate consequences,” notes the 13-page text, as reported by RTVC television.
In addition, it considers that the provisions of the Total Peace Law are unconstitutional “as well as the regulation that allows dissidents of peace processes to negotiate again with the national government and obtain benefits without limitations”.
It also points out that articles 2, 12, and 18 were added to the plenary text and never discussed in the commissions.
According to the Prosecutor General’s Office, the law is being violated because the law deals with citizen security and the judicial system, but the text was never consulted with the State body in charge of analyzing these proposals, the Superior Council of Criminal Policy.
This circumstance is of such gravity that the norm should be declared unconstitutional in its entirety, according to the appeal.
With information from LGI
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