Colombian Congress
Rejects Third Term
Proposal For President
Uribe
BOGOTA - The Colombian
House of Representatives
on Wednesday rejected a
constitutional reform
proposal to allow
incumbent President
Alvaro Uribe to run in
the 2014 presidential
election.
A ruling party proposal
to allow Uribe to run
for president again four
years after the end of
his present term, was
defeated in a plenary
session of the house,
with 75 votes against
and 40 infavor.
After the voting, ruling
party representatives
said they will call a
referendum to seek
Uribe's candidacy. His
current term concludes
in 2010.
Uribe became Colombia's
president in 2002, and
was re-elected in 2006.
Under Colombia's 1991
constitution, the
president is elected for
a four-year term by
universal adult suffrage
and may not serve
consecutive terms.
However, in October
2005, Colombia's
Constitutional Court
approved a law allowing
presidents to serve more
than one term, a move
which allowed Uribe to
be re-elected in 2006.
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