Abstract

PADRON PARDO, FLORALBA; RICO MARULANDA, CAROLINA  and  NARVAEZ QUINTERO, JUAN SEBASTIÁN. Election lists recall a mechanism for suffrage rights: An analysis of 2018-2022 Congress elections in Colombia. Rev. Derecho Estado [online]. 2020, n.47, pp.31-78.  Epub Jan 28, 2021. ISSN 0122-9893.  https://doi.org/10.18601/01229893.n47.02.

This chapter analyzes the revocation of the registration of candidates and its effects in passive suffrage and political representation. 106 cases for the revocation of candidacies, solved by the National Electoral Council (CNE), during the elections to the Congress of the Republic 2018-2022, were considered for the analysis. The cases were classified according to the conditions by which the lists of candidates for the Congress of the Republic were issued: (i) ordinary constituencies; (ii) special constituency of Afro-descendant communities; (iii) constituency of indigenous communities; and (iv) The FARC seats recognized in Constitutional Amendment 03 of 2017. This analysis is confronted with the electoral nullity actions solved by the Fifth Section of the State Council for the same electoral period, in order to establish coincidences and determine the utility of the coexistence between two independent mechanisms with a similar purpose.

Keywords : Political rights; Passive suffrage; Political representation; Revocation of the registration of candidates; Electoral nullity.

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