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Colombian court pauses Petro’s economic emergency measures
BOGOTA, Jan 29 – Colombia’s top court on Thursday ordered President Gustavo Petro’s government to pause an emergency decree that had been intended to boost government finances, pending a final court decision. Petro’s administration put the measures into effect in December after a tax reform bill aimed at raising 16.3 trillion pesos ($4.45 billion) failed to pass in Congress. The economic emergency gave Petro’s government the power to make dec…
The economic emergency decreed by the government of Gustavo Petro has lost its first pulse in the Constitutional Court. With a majority of six votes against two – judges Héctor Carvajal and Vladimir Fernández – the Plena Chamber has accepted on Thursday the petition for provisional suspension presented by the judge-Rapporteur, former People’s Defender Carlos Camargo. The decision not only leaves without effect the measures taken so far by the Pr…
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The Plena Chamber broke its precedent and temporarily stopped the decree, warning possible violations of the Constitution and formal judgements. With six votes in favour and two against, the Constitutional Court decided to suspend provisionally the effects of the economic emergency decree issued by the Government of Gustavo Petro, after the collapse of the ... The post Constitutional Court suspends the economic emergency decreed by the Governmen…
There were diverse reactions in the political sphere following the Constitutional Court's decision to suspend the economic emergency declared by the national government last December to address a fiscal deficit. Senator Carlos Fernando Motoa of the Radical Change party, who called for the political oversight hearing on the emergency, stated in the Senate, "We warned about it, we persisted, and we succeeded."
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