“The point of the peace process regarding opening avenues for political participation has been completely nullified,” the president wrote on his social media account X regarding the decision announced, what goes against what is established as a right in the Colombian Constitution.

Following the Council of State’s decision to overturn the resolutions with which the National Electoral Council (CNE) recognized the legal status of the Poder Popular movement, that association is deprived of the right to endorse candidates and receive state funding.

Today’s decision follows the revocation, on March 20, of the legal status of the Soy Porque Somos party, the party of the country’s vice president, Francia Marquez; as well as the withdrawal of the same status from Todos Somos Colombia, led by Senator Clara Lopez of the Historical Pact.

Currently, the progressive movement coalition Pacto Historico is seeking to form a single political party ahead of the 2026 congressional and presidential elections; however, the CNE approved the merger of that group, but without Colombia Humana, President Gustavo Petro’s party, due to alleged internal irregularities related to the quorum that approved the merger.

It also denied the adhesion of Progresistas (an organization to which Senator Maria Jose Pizarro, David Racero, and Heraclito Landinez belong) and the Minga Indigena Politica y Social (Indigenous Political and Social Minga) because they do not have legal status.

The party would then be composed of the Polo Democratico (Democratic Pole), the Unión Patriotica (Patriotic Union), and the Partido Comunista (Communist Communist Party), but it conditions this merger on the resolution of administrative processes that have not yet been resolved and for which the electoral calendar is working against them.

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