Political Constitution of Colombia (1991)

Civil servants may not in the exercise of their functions, nominate, propose or contract people within their kinship up to the fourth degree of consanguinity, the second level of affinity, the first level of civil status, or with whom they are linked by marriage or permanent union.

They will not be able to nominate or propose as civil servants, nor celebrate state contracts with, people that have intervened in their postulation or designation, nor with people that have with them the same bonds described in the previous item.

Exceptions to the provisions of this Article are the nominations that are made according to the current norms about the entry or promotion for merits in the career.

With the exception of the entrance exams regulated by law, the election of public servants attributed to public corporations should be presided by a public convocation regulated by the law with requirements and procedures that guarantee the principles of publicity, transparency, citizen participation, gender equality, and merit criteria for its election.

People who have exercised some of the positions in the following list will not be able to be reelected. They will not be able to be nominated for another of these positions nor be elected to a position of popular election, until a year after the end their functions:

Magistrate of the Constitutional Court, of the Supreme Court of Justice, of the Council of State, of the National Commission of Judicial Discipline, Member of the Immunity Commission, Member of the National Election Commission, Attorney General of the Nation, General Prosecutor of the Nation, Ombudsman, Comptroller General of the Republic, and National Registrar of Civil Status.