A lawsuit filed against Colombia’s National Electoral Council (CNE) calling for the removal of Gustavo Petro from the office of mayor of Bogota, Colombia’s capital, has been shot down in court.
The councilor who filed the lawsuit, Orlando Parada Diaz, claimed that
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However, the CNE’s defense lawyer successfully argued that the law did not apply to Petro, as he had previously been pardoned for both the aforementioned crime, and his membership in M-19.
The verdict has no doubt brought some welcome respite for the embattled mayor, who in January of this year claimed that vested interests were ploting a coup against him.