House and Senate News
The House of Representatives adopted the reform policy, which will put sanctions on members of Congress associated with crime and raise the threshold required for parties of 3%. Missing two debates
Then it gave the plenary presentation to the majority and made amendments to some articles highlighting points as the application of the concept of 'empty chair'.
According to the article a number of reform, the parties will be punished "in their schedules to benefit persons connected with groups outside the law or with drug trafficking, and will apply to those linked to research from 2009.
According to Benedetti, "they lose their parliamentary seat and will not be replaced."
In the same way, be responsible political parties and theirleaders to allow their members to be infiltrated by groups outside the law are paramilitaries, guerrillas, or who have committed crimes against humanity.
Similarly, the Senate back to the Council of State the powers of revocation of the action during the electoral process in the House had been conferred on the National Electoral Council.
In the act also provides that the State will give them an advance on political parties and their candidates to finance election campaigns. This includes candidates who are launched with the backing of signatures.
It will also be punished double militancy of the party members to support candidates of different parties.
According to Senator Jose Dario Salazar to reform "is to fight corruption by living off of the officials who commit illegal against public property."
Minister Fabio Valencia told the plenary that the output of the reform "is a purification of politics," and that "the mafia and get the money ill not continue intervening in the life of the country."
