Last Tuesday and with the challenge of getting it approved in plenary before June 20, the day when regular sessions end, House of Representatives Committee approved the bill that the Electoral law.
Among what was approved was the independence of the National Electoral Council, more electoral benefits for the jurors and the extension within an hour of Election Day.
Other standards endorsed have to do with the fact that the use of electoral ‘software’ is state property and can be controlled by the parties and gender equality on the lists.
And the dry law has been enforced since the day before, early voting will only be abroad, what is spent on advertising on social networks will be controlled, and coalitions will have to respect each other and support their candidates to the end.
On the other hand, the Third House Committee approved in the first debate the increase in taxes on the tobacco and vaping.
In this regard the representative Saray Robayo, from La U, warned that about 34,000 people die every year in Colombia from these scourges, which also cost the country about $1.7 trillion a year, representing almost 2% of GDP, according to the Ministry of Health.
Finally, the debate on the ban on bullfighting was revived in the Senate. This after the Fifth Parliamentary Committee had submitted the project that wanted to end bullfighting, cockfighting and corralejas.
It is a new project in the Senate Sixth Committee, proposing to ban bullfighting, rejoneo, heifers, calves and temptations, confinement and release of heifers, without tampering with cockfighting or corralejas.
Source: El Heraldo
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