For the majority of the nine judges who make up the Constitutional Court, the amendment that reforms the Constitution doesn't violate its spirit and is in agreement with it, besides having been approved with the required debates and accurate legislative procedures, and the Colombian Congress did have the faculty to process and approve the reform. The Court's deliberations lasted four and a half weeks, a time during which most of the political activity of the country, facing legislative elections in March and a presidential race in May, was practically paralized . The voting <tr>IssueForAgainst<tr> Constitutionality of inmediate presidential reelection and of the Colombian Congress's faculties to include it in the Constitution 7 2 Constitutionality of Congressmen and Congresswomen's recusations and of the impediment procedures of the First Commissions (of Senate and House) and plenary sessions. 6 3 Inconstitutionality of the faculties granted to the State Council to issue the "Electoral Warranties Law" if Congress would not issue it. 8 1 Constitutionality of the guarantees granted to the opposition during the 8 debates concerning the amendment during the Commissions and plenary sessions in Congress. 6 3 Constitutionality of the Court's competence to check the amendment's contents and safeguard the spirit of the 1991 Colombian Constitution 7 2 Constitutionality of the settlement of the approved texts by the plenary sessions of the House of Representatives and the Senate. 6 3 Source:
For the majority of the nine judges who make up the Constitutional Court, the amendment that reforms the Constitution doesn't violate its spirit and is in agreement with it, besides having been approved with the required debates and accurate legislative procedures, and the Colombian Congress did have the faculty to process and approve the reform. The Court's deliberations lasted four and a half weeks, a time during which most of the political activity of the country, facing legislative elections in March and a presidential race in May, was practically paralyzed . The voting <tr>IssueForAgainst<tr> Constitutionality of immediate presidential reelection and of the Colombian Congress's faculties to include it in the Constitution 7 2 Constitutionality of Congressmen and Congresswomen's recusations and of the impediment procedures of the First Commissions (of Senate and House) and plenary sessions. 6 3 Inconstitutionality of the faculties granted to the State Council to issue the "Electoral Warranties Law" if Congress would not issue it. 8 1 Constitutionality of the guarantees granted to the opposition during the 8 debates concerning the amendment during the Commissions and plenary sessions in Congress. 6 3 Constitutionality of the Court's competence to check the amendment's contents and safeguard the spirit of the 1991 Colombian Constitution 7 2 Constitutionality of the settlement of the approved texts by the plenary sessions of the House of Representatives and the Senate. 6 3 Source:
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