Constitución en Inglés

69 Corte Constitucional de Colombia The leadership of political parties and movements must promote processes of internal democratization and the strengthening of the principle of parliamentary bloc-formation. of parliamentary groups. Political parties or movements shall be required to assume responsibility for any violation or contravention of the rules that govern their organization, functioning, and funding. They additionally shall also be held responsible for promoting any candidates elected to posts or public bodies by popular election who have been or were sentenced during the exercise of their official duties for crimes involving links to illegal armed groups and drug-trafficking activities, crimes against the system of democratic participation, or crimes against humanity by a sentence that is enforceable in Colombia or abroad. Political parties and movements additionally shall be held responsible for endorsing any candidates to popularly elected offices or public corporations, even if they are not elected, who receive a conviction, whether enforceable in Colombia or abroad, for criminal links to illegal armed groups or narcotrafficking activities prior to the party’s endorsement. The sanctions may include fines, reimbursement of public funds received based on the party’s share of votes received, or even loss of legal status. When the sentence concerns persons who have been elected to posts with a single officeholder the party or movement that endorsed the sentenced person shall not present candidates for the subsequent elections in that constituency. If the elections are less than eighteen months away, the party or movement shall not have the right to present the shortlist of three