The Colombian government will present a bill to Congress on Friday proposing that mayors and governors be eligible to run for a second term in office.
Minister for the Interior and Justice German Vargas Lleras said he hopes to prepare the bill as fast as possible. If passed, it would mean that incumbent mayors and governors could run for a second consecutive term in office in the 2011 elections.
Since the new Colombian constitution came into force in 1991, a similar re-election initiative has been proposed seventeen times.
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