The Superior Court of the Colombian capital thus granted the request of a group of citizens who maintained that the lack of debates violated the right of voters to correct information on the candidates’ programs to decide your vote.
That is why he ordered Gustavo Petro, a candidate for the Historical Pact, and Rodolfo Hernández, from the Anti-Corruption Leaders League, to hold a “presidential debate with the rules and on the topics that they indicate in the request”.
Petro had already suspended his participation in the debates before the first round, because according to him the transparency of the vote was not guaranteed. Hernández, for his part, withdrew from the ballot because, he said, they were “polarizing and hateful dynamics.”
But the Court warned in its ruling that citizens do not have a “simple right” to decide the political power with the information of the debates.
“The presidential debates are in themselves considered, a candidate’s right to present his ideas, but at the same time a duty towards the social conglomerate,” he said.
“The grandiloquence generated by a debate of ideas cannot be replaced with interviews, press releases or announcements in the media or social networks. The seriousness of an electoral campaign in a Democratic State requires, out of respect for its citizens, a guarantee of the fundamental right to participate, as a future voter”, was the request of the plaintiffs, reported El Colombiano.
Source: Ambito
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