The National Electoral Council ( es, Consejo Nacional Electoral, CNE) is a Colombian institution under the
Colombian Constitution of 1991
The Political Constitution of Colombia of 1991 ( es, Constitución Política de Colombia de 1991), is the Constitution of the Republic of Colombia. It was promulgated in Constitutional Gazette number 114 on Thursday, July 4, 1991, and is als ...
which based in Article 265 is in charge of the supreme inspection and vigilance of the
electoral organization. The National Electoral Council is supposed to know and decide when and where an election is going to take place. The entity also watches over the
Colombian political parties and political movements, their publicity and marketing, polls to guarantee the opposition or minorities also achieve a fair political aspiration.
The National Electoral Council also oversees the financing of political campaigns and the rights of citizens to participate in politics within the law. After every election the electoral council is also in charge of counting the votes and determine within the law and rules the overall winners and accredit them with an official identification. The council also must recognize parties and political movements as
legal entities
In law, a legal person is any person or 'thing' (less ambiguously, any legal entity) that can do the things a human person is usually able to do in law – such as enter into contracts, sue and be sued, own property, and so on. The reason for ...
and collaborate with the performing of internal research polls within the political parties and political movements through the government owned media.
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Elections in Colombia
Elections in Colombia are regulated and controlled by the National Electoral Council which provides information on elections and election results in for the politics of Colombia.
Colombia elects on national level a head of state - the president ...
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Politics of Colombia
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List of political parties in Colombia
This article lists political parties in Colombia.
Colombia had historically maintained a two-party system, which means that there were two dominant political parties, resulting in considerable difficulty for anybody to achieve major electoral s ...
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Government of Colombia
Elections in Colombia
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