Uribe ready to amend Colombia's constitution to benefit only convicted politicians

by Adriaan Alsema July 14, 2019

Colombia’s former president Alvaro Uribe wants to amend Colombia’s constitution to retroactively allow all convicted politicians to appeal sentences imposed after 1991.

Uribe said his constitutional amendment proposal was ready on Friday, the day that his former protege, Andres Felipe Arias, was extradited from the United States to serve a 17-year sentence he received for embezzling $25 million.

The proposal, which is in line with a recommendation of the Constitutional Court, would allow all former congressmen, ministers and governors who have been convicted by the Supreme Court after 1991 to appeal the verdicts against them.

If Congress agrees, chances are that the Supreme Court’s Appeals Chamber collapses as it could be asked to revise the sentences of the approximately 250 politicians who have been convicted by the high court since the 1991 constitution took force.

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Arias is not a scumbag who embezzled $25 million meant for poor farmers to give those funds to wealthy elites that could sponsor his 2010 presidential campaign, but innocent, according to Uribe.

More:
https://colombiareports.com/uribe-ready-to-amend-colombias-constitution-to-benefit-only-convicted-politicians/

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