Supreme Court denied guardianship to Ingrid Betancourt, asked the State to give more money to the Oxygen Green party

After presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt sent a guardianship to the Supreme Court of Justice to ask that the country's electoral authorities, as well as the national government, increase her money for her campaign for the Oxygen Green party, the high court rejected her claims in the first instance.

This became known in the morning of this Thursday, March 24, when the Full Chamber of the Court denied the advances that Betancourt, who is also the legal representative of his community, requested before the Ministry of Finance, the National Electoral Council and the National Civil Registry Office.

The independent applicant assured that the amount they gave to her party was less than that of other movements and that is why she requested that they give her the same amount as the political movement Comunes, which is made up of several members of the former FARC guerrilla, former kidnappers of Ingrid Betancourt.

In her tutelage, Ingrid Betancourt referred to the ruling of the Constitutional Court that restored her party's legal personality and assured that, although the court allowed them to compete in the elections, the amount to be given to them for election campaigns had not been defined and that is why she asked corporations and entities before mentioned to take matters into the matter.

However, not only did the Supreme Court distort the claims of the Oxygen Green Board of Directors, but the National Electoral Council itself addressed the issue and asked that court to disregard Betancourt's request as there were no violations of the rights granted after the ruling that also benefited the New Liberalism.

“The resolution that will fix funding for the functioning of all political parties and movements is currently being projected, so what the acting party intends is to anticipate the facts,” said the electoral body.

For its part, the Registrar's Office, led by Alexander Vega Rocha, argued that this entity “merely acts as the manager of expenditure, but the administration of the fund falls within the competence of the National Electoral Council,” they argued, implying that they do not define the advances that the entities set for politicians to campaign.

Even the Full Chamber of the Supreme Court assured that Ingrid Betancourt's party did not follow the regular channel by first asking the CNE to take action on the matter, contrary to what other communities have done.

In fact, the Court recognized that by not following the parameters for submitting such requests, guardianship could not succeed. “(...) In addition to the fact that in the face of this nomination there is no development in the demand for guardianship, from which the need for the intervention of a constitutional judge can be derived, the movement did not prove that it had filed any petition to that effect, before the National Electoral Council,” said the Court.

Even the Attorney General's Office itself, as well as the Ministry of Finance, ruled on the issue and, like the other entities, considered that there are no faults or violations in the amounts and procedures that the State has developed with the Green Oxygen party. In fact, in the government portfolio they made the following statement:

“The role of this ministry is limited to the overall allocation of resources, to the entities that make up the national public budget, but not as an executing body of the system,” said the legal representative of the Ministry of Finance.

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