Oh, surely not because it’s only El Narco and not Chavecito calling for this rather unusual measure…
Colombia’s president on Thursday called for a referendum to decide if new presidential elections should be held in the wake of a court decision that is questioning the legitimacy of his 2006 re-election.
President Alvaro Uribe said he will ask the country’s congress to approve the referendum.
Uribe’s demand came after the Supreme Court called Thursday for the re-evaluation of the congressional act that changed the constitution to allow Uribe to run for a second term. The Supreme Court questioned the act after a former representative was found guilty of having changed her vote in 2004 to support the president’s bid for re-election.
Yidis Medina, who was sentenced to 47 months, claimed senior members of the government offered her supporters jobs in exchange for her key vote. Uribe’s administration has denied the charges.
But of course, he IS looking to change the constitution and run. Even his own defence minister, the most likely successor, is being blocked by El Narco, who wants to hang onto power, it seems, for life.
The ghost of Pablo Escobar must be rolling around the bowels of hell, laughing his ass off.
