Political Constitution of Colombia (1991)

By way of status Acts (leyes estatuarias) the Congress of the Republic shall regulate the following subject areas:

Fundamental rights and duties of individuals and the proceedings and resources for their protection;

Administration of justice;

Organization and regulations of parties and political movements; the formal statute of the opposition and electoral functions;

Institutions and machinery of citizen participation;

States of exception.

The equal electoral treatment of candidates for the Presidency of the Republic who comply with the requirements established by statute.

The National Government or the members of Congress shall present before March 1, 2005 the draft of a statutory law which implements letter f) of Article 152 of the Constitution and regulates, in addition, the following matters: guarantees for the opposition, the participation of civil servants in politics, the right of equal access to communications media which make use of the electromagnetic spectrum, the predominantly state financing of presidential election campaigns, the right to reply in conditions of equality when the President of the Republic is a candidate, and rules about disabilities of presidential candidates.

The draft law shall be accompanied by a declaration of urgency and may be subject to a declaration of insistence [by Congress with regard to its referral to the Constitutional Court]. The Congress of the Republic enacts the status Act before June 20, 2005. The period for the exercise of the preventive control of constitutionality of the draft statutory law by the Constitutional Court is reduced by half.