{"id":25896,"date":"2008-06-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dejusticia.org\/constitutional-efforts\/"},"modified":"2017-04-11T07:24:46","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T12:24:46","slug":"constitutional-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/constitutional-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"Constitutional Efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Digo esto para expresar mi preocupaci\u00f3n por la reciente decisi\u00f3n de la Corte Constitucional (C-545 de 2008), en la que sostiene que el juzgamiento de los congresistas ante la Corte Suprema de Justicia debe adaptarse al principio jur\u00eddico que manda separar las funciones de juzgamiento e investigaci\u00f3n. La decisi\u00f3n en s\u00ed misma no me parece mala. Lo que me parece cuestionable es haber hecho efectivo ese principio en este momento, justo cuando la Corte Suprema adelanta \u2013 con un procedimiento vigente que no contempla ese principio\u2014 una campa\u00f1a judicial valerosa y decidida, nunca antes vista, contra las mafias y la parapol\u00edtica en Colombia. Me preocupa que la decisi\u00f3n de la Corte Constitucional pueda servir para hacer retroceder los avances que se han logrado en la lucha contra la impunidad (que tambi\u00e9n son un bien jur\u00eddico importante).<\/p>\n<p>Esto me lleva a otra preocupaci\u00f3n y es la siguiente. Lo m\u00e1s probable es que la suerte del proceso contra la parapol\u00edtica no se resuelva ahora, sino en el futuro, a trav\u00e9s de las tutelas que van a interponer aquellos que quieren derrumbar lo hecho hasta el momento por la Corte Suprema. El problema es que, en ese futuro, tendremos una nueva Corte Constitucional. En efecto, a finales de este a\u00f1o se elegir\u00e1n seis nuevos magistrados. La nueva Corte que de all\u00ed resulte tendr\u00e1 ocho de nueve miembros elegidos por el Congreso, el mismo Congreso que tiene a un 22% de sus miembros investigados por la justicia. \u00bfQu\u00e9 posibilidades tenemos de que sea una corte independiente? <\/p>\n<p>Pero eso no es todo. Como consecuencia de las reelecciones presidenciales \u2013la pasada y la que viene \u2013 el Gobierno terminar\u00e1 influyendo de tal manera en el nombramiento de esos magistrados, que muy probablemente har\u00e1 de esa nueva corte uno m\u00e1s de sus \u00f3rganos de bolsillo. Basta con ver las cifras: ocho de nueve miembros ser\u00e1n elegidos en el contexto de una doble reelecci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<p>Vuelvo entonces a lo que dije al inicio: las cortes constitucionales son sensibles a los contextos en los cuales se aplican sus decisiones. Por eso tienen una dimensi\u00f3n pol\u00edtica incuestionable. Por eso tambi\u00e9n es natural que cuando cambian los magistrados, cambie la jurisprudencia. Defender el sistema constitucional implica defender a la corte, con independencia de que sea progresista o conservadora. Nada de eso me preocupa; lo que me alarma es que, como consecuencia de la reelecci\u00f3n y del desequilibrio institucional causado por ella, la composici\u00f3n de la nueva Corte Constitucional sea el reflejo exclusivo de la visi\u00f3n pol\u00edtica del Gobierno y de las mayor\u00edas que lo acompa\u00f1an en el Congreso, las cuales, como si fuera poco, est\u00e1n siendo investigadas por la justicia.<\/p>\n<p>Por eso me parece que los magistrados de la actual Corte Constitucional, que son honestos y rigurosos, debieron pensar un poco m\u00e1s \u2013como sugiere Havel\u2014 en la suerte que correr\u00e1 su sentencia C-545 cuando llegue a manos de sus sucesores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>V\u00e1clav Havel, the first president of the Czech Republic, once said that the \u2018truth is not simply what one thinks it is.  It is also the circumstances in which it is said and to who, how and when it is said\u2019.  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