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6/21/22, 10:00 AM 190.217.24.55:8080/WebRelatoria/Temp/reporte-20220621-7.html Alberto Yepes Barreiro, radicación 11001-03-28-000-2015-00027-00. En cuanto a que es necesario esperar a la decisión final para plantear la invalidez del procedimiento y del acto de inscripción, ver: Corte Constitucional, sentencia T-945 de diciembre 16 de 2009, M.P. Mauricio González Cuervo. Sobre la posibilidad de demandar autónomamente el acto que revoca la inscripción, consultar: Consejo de Estado, Sección Quinta, auto del 23 de octubre de 2015, M.P. Alberto Yepes Barreiro, Rad. 11001-03-28-000-2015-00027-00. 190.217.24.55:8080/WebRelatoria/Temp/reporte-20220621-7.html 6/6

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Zambrano Castro v. National Electoral Council

Judgment

Question Presented: Whether the rejection of an applicant’s mayoral candidacy should be overturned because he initiated a lawsuit to revoke disciplinary sanctions against him, thereby potentially qualifying him for a “pending lawsuit” exception as outlined in Article 100, Paragraph 8 of the General Code of Procedure.

Alleged Acts: The plaintiff alleges that the CNE improperly rejected his candidate registration for the Mayor’s Office of the Municipality of Guaranda-Sucre after the CNE discovered that he was disqualified from holding office from January 18, 2018, to January 18, 2021. This ban resulted from disciplinary sanctions imposed by the Attorney General, which the plaintiff had requested to be overturned by the Attorney General’s Office.

Procedural history: The plaintiff sued to nullify Resolution 4647, which the CNE cited in rejecting his registration as a mayoral candidate, and to restore his candidate rights for the municipal election. The rapporteur magistrate ruled in favor of the CNE. The plaintiff appealed.

Summary: Plaintiff Enrique Carlos Zambrano Castro registered to run for mayor of the municipality of Guaranda-Sucre in 2019. However, the CNE rejected his candidate registration because it found that he was barred from running for public office between January 18, 2018, and January 18, 2021. The plaintiff argued that because he was in the middle of a lawsuit against the Magangué Provincial Attorney’s Office to overturn this sanction, he should be allowed to stand as a candidate, in accordance with Article 100, Paragraph 8 of the General Code of Procedure. This article allows a candidate to claim an exception to certain proceedings if there is a pending lawsuit between the same parties on the same matter. The Court found that the plaintiff did not qualify for a “pending lawsuit” exception because once the plaintiff’s suspension from public office became final, it took on legal effects and was no longer considered “pending” or in progress, even though the plaintiff had submitted a request to the Attorney General’s Office to revoke its sanctions against him. Furthermore, since rejecting the plaintiff’s registration is an administrative, rather than judicial, matter, the law does not apply to the CNE’s procedure. The CNE could not find for the plaintiff and upheld the CNE’s decision.

Conclusion: Appeal was dismissed with prejudice. Applicant’s candidacy nomination was not approved.

Legal Issue(s)

Candidate Registration
Civil Procedure

Applicable Law(s): Article 127 of Law 734 of 2002; Article 95, Number 1 of Law 136 of 1994; Articles 13, 29 and 90 of the Colombian Constitution; Article 229 of the Charter; Article 100, Number 8 of the General Code of the Process; Article 12 of the CPACA

Region: Americas

Country: Colombia

Language of Decision

Spanish

Court: Constitutional Court

Election Type: Municipal

Date of decision: Oct 29, 2020

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Latitude: 4.625704089861983

Longitude: -74.00719081531177

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