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the silly homeland
The origin of citizen suffrage to elect high officials of the State and public corporations dates back to the time known in Colombia as La Patria Boba, 1810-1816, at which time the classical liberal institutions that were consolidated after the independence in the Charter of Angostura of 1819. -
The Constitutional Reform
This reform prohibited the participation of the military in politics, established the direct popular election of the president of the republic, departmental assemblies, and municipal councils; reduced the presidential term from 6 to 4 years. -
Voting Conditions
As of the 1914 elections, only those who knew how to read and write, or who had a minimum annual income of 300 pesos, or buildings of more than 1,000 pesos, could vote. -
Women's Voting Rights
She was given the right to choose and be elected. . Women vote for the first time in the 1957 plebiscite. -
1957 Plebiscite
On October 4 of this year, a plebiscite is called for December 1 in order to submit the constitutional reform for consultation. This vote was one of massive participation and the largest that the country has had in its history.
Through the plebiscite, the Colombians approved that the Constitution would be from 1886, with some reforms. -
Reform of 1968
Carlos Lleras Restrepo undertook the difficult task of reforming the Constitution since 1967. Its purpose was to begin the dismantling of the National Front and solve the differences that had arisen between the Executive and the Legislative in previous years.
The 1968 reform promulgated the abolition of the principle of two-thirds of the vote as a majority criterion, except for the constitutional reform and to modify the electoral legislation -
End of the national front
in this year the votes were carried out to elect the President of the Republic, and the candidate Alfonso López Michelsen, from the Colombian Liberal Party, was elected. The electoral process was characterized by the end of the National Front and the participation of other movements. -
National Constituent Assembly
is the result of a massive citizen expression that asked
the drafting of a new Constitution in Colombia, replacing the Constitution of 1886. Colombians voted
for the democratic conformation of the group of leaders in charge of discussing and writing it. -
Political reform 2003
It carried out important transformations in the electoral regime and the Colombian party system. The changes introduced by the Political Reform of 2003 were aimed at reducing personalism and the fragmentation of the Colombian party system. -
Referendum 2007
The U Party promoted a project to call a referendum that would decide the possibility of electing President Álvaro Uribe Vélez for the 2010-2014 period. To this end, a campaign was launched in 2008 in which 5 million citizens' signatures were collected; however, on February 26, 2010, the Constitutional Court, with seven votes in favor and two against, declared the referendum unenforceable. -
Democratic center
It is a Colombian political party founded by former president Álvaro Uribe. In its beginnings, the party brought together Uribismo politicians, as well as several dissidents from the Conservative Party and the U Party, consolidating itself as the main opposition party to the Santos government. It has been notable for being the main and only party to formally declare itself in opposition to the Peace Process signed between the Santos Government and the FARC.
