Senators of Colombia's coalition presented an alternative plan to secure the 2010 re-election of President Álvaro Uribe.
The initial plan was to force the possibility for Uribe to run for office again through a referendum, but this referendum has become subject of a criminal investigation, because of the alleged fraudulent financing of the popular vote.
Also, the referendum, because it was wrongly formulated, does not allow Uribe to run for office until 2014.
Two senators Tuesday proposed to include the possibility for a president to be in office for three consecutive terms in a constitutional change that could avoid a referendum and be approved by Congress and ratified by the Constitutional Court.
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