Political Constitution of Colombia (1991)

Any citizen, regardless of title, who has functioned as a President cannot be elected President of the Republic. This prohibition does not apply to the Vice President when taking office for less than three months, in a continuous or discontinuous manner during the four-year period. The prohibition against reelection can only be reformed or derogated through a referendum of popular initiative or constitutional assembly.

No citizen can be elected as President of the Republic or as a Vice President if that person has incurred in any of the acts of incompetence established in the numerals 1, 4, and 7 of the Article 179, nor the citizen that a year before the election has had the investiture of Vice President or exercised any of the following positions:

Minister, Director of an Administrative Department, Magistrate of the Supreme Court of Justice, of the Constitutional Court, of the Council of State, of the National Commission of Judicial Discipline, Member of the Commission of Immunity or the National Election Commission, General Prosecutor of the Nation, Ombudsman, Controller General of the Republic, Attorney General of the Nation, National Registrar of the Civil Status, Commanders of the Armed Forces, Auditor General of the Republic, Director General of the Police, Departmental Governor, or Mayor.