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Liberal Party: Government trying to disenfranchise Colombians

by Michael Kay September 15, 2008

A Liberal Party spokesperson accused the Colombian government of attempting to disenfranchise Colombians and lower the threshold for approval of the bill that would allow President Alvaro Uribe’s reelection through a provision in the proposed Political Reform law.

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Arturo Piedrahita charged that a paragraph within the law would reduce from six million to three million the number of votes required by electoral code to approve the reelection referendum by shifting from using Census figures to determine eligible voters to using the number anticipated to vote in the coming 2010 election, reported Caracol Radio.

Piedrahita also alleged the change amounts to a backdoor amendement of the National Constitution, which establishes the census as the only measure of eligible voters.

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