Alvaro Uribe, the President of Columbia, has been the best President that Columbia has seen for a long time. He was reelected in 2008 because of his outstanding spunk in his country and now in 2010 the people want to reelect him again. Uribe has evaded making any formal anouncment his intentions of wanting to be reelected. There is only one problem. It is against the Columbian constitution to be reelected a second time.
In Columbia his reelection has been fodder for intense debate with respect to both the constitutionality and legality of such an endevor as well as the practical connsequeces that reelection would effect on the funcioning of the country's political apparatus.
The Electoral Council and the Constitutional Court may well object the referendum due to both the procedural irregularities and strict rules which prohibit constitutional revisions that do not respond to a previous error in interperetation. The question that people are asking though is whether they should change the constitution for a great President that they really like, and dramaticaly change the law or not.
