The Bogotá City Council is the highest Political and second highest Administrative Authority of

Bogotá Bogotá (, also , , ), officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santa Fe de Bogotá (; ) during the Spanish period and between 1991 and 2000, is the capital city of Colombia, and one of the larges ...

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. It is the only city council in the country which has 45

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s, since the limit for all other city councils is 21 Councillors. The Bogotá City Council, along with the Principal Mayor, is responsible for the city administration. The Councillors are elected by popular vote for a 4 years term, and they can be re-elected.

Functions

The council is responsible for, among other tasks, performing political control of the Capital District´s government and studying the Agreement (local regulation) projects. Moreover, the council issues regulations to promote the integral development of the city and its inhabitants.

Political watchdog

There is an initiative called ''Council How It Goes'' (

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: ''Concejo Cómo Vamos''), which is in charge of doing political watchdog journalism in relation to the activities of the Bogotá City Council. This initiative is sponsored by the Corona multinational (Colombia), the El Tiempo Publishing House (CEET), the

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and the

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of Bogotá. The ''Council How it Goes'' initiative produces reports that are published online, on the El Tiempo newspaper and on the Citytv Bogotá local television channel.

References

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