The Supreme Court of Justice did not choose the new attorney general of Colombia this Thursday, but gave a clear signal that it seeks to do so soon.
In its biweekly session, it carried out several rounds of voting to determine who will lead the entity for the next four years.
None of the three candidates obtained the 16 votes necessary to achieve investiture – the court is made up of 23 judges – and the final announcement will have to wait.
The process thus completes five weeks since voting began, at the end of January.
However, the Court confirmed the convening of an extraordinary session of its Plenary Chamber, next Tuesday, to dedicate itself solely to the vote.
The clock struck noon in the Palace of Justice.
The magistrates met for more than three hours and there was no news about the progress of the election.
The last thing that was known, after the last vote in February, was that the prosecutor Amelia Pérez managed to garner 13 supports and was very close to becoming head of the Prosecutor's Office, surpassing her rivals, Angela María Buitrago and Luz Adriana Camargo .
But within a few days a pall of doubt arose over Pérez's apparent imminent triumph.
Different media outlets revealed publications in X by Gregorio Oviedo, her husband, in which she attested to her left-wing militancy and referred to journalists with offensive expressions.
The media noise was considerable, but it was impossible to know how much it could affect the candidate's image.
Gerson Chaverra, the president of the Court, left the Plenary Chamber to go to the Court's press office and attend to the journalists who were following the vote.
There he stated that there is still no winner, but that the outcome is approaching.
“There were quite important majorities that show us that we are close or close to reaching consensus and that majority necessary for the election of the new attorney general of the Nation,” he assured.
Without giving exact numbers or names, Chaverra suggested that it is possible that in the upcoming session, set outside the usual schedule for March 12, the discussion will be concluded.
He added that that day they would focus “exclusively” on the election of the new prosecutor.
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