Colombia’s interior minister, Fabio Valencia Cossio, on Friday proposed a bill to split the Interior and Justice Ministry into two separate bodies, reports El Espectador.
Cossio presented the plan to a committee from Colombia’s House of Representatives.
According to the minister, the plan aims to repair the tense relationship between the Colombian government and the Supreme Court, by putting just one government official in charge of justice, whilst the others would be dedicated to interior politics.
Disputes between the Colombian government and the Supreme Court have been frequent of late, with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe last Tuesday calling the issuance of an arrest warrant for government official Mario Aranguren an “injustice” that causes a “lack of confidence” in the court.