Former presidents of Colombia’s Supreme Court agreed with President Alvaro Uribe that the two bodies must seek a way to decrease tensions between Uribe’s administration and the country’s highest court.
The Presidency and the Supreme Court have clashed on numerous occasions over the past few years and are currently deadlocked over the election of a new Prosecutor General.
An anonymous official within the Casa de Nariño told newscast CM& that the Uribe administration is available at any time to talk to the Supreme Court and the problem is with current Supreme Court president Augusto Ibañez, not the remaining members of the court.
The former magistrates was positive about finding a solution for the years-long friction that started when the Supreme Court started investigating deals made between lawmakers — mostly from Uribe’s coalition — and right-wing paramilitary death squads.