nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/1315870488f03e46 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 250713s2025||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/1315870488f03e46 doi eng 342 23 Benítez-R., Vicente F. Author aut Petro’s Schmittian Turn - Constitutionalism Under Siege in Colombia Benítez-R., Vicente F. Verfassungsblog 2025-07-13 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On 11 June 2025, Colombian President Gustavo Petro issued a decree calling a national popular consultation on a package of long-stalled social reforms. The decree came after the Senate had explicitly rejected his formal request to hold such a vote – approval that is constitutionally required under Article 104 of the Constitution. This reveals something deeper and more dangerous: an increasingly Schmittian conception of democratic power, in which the president, claiming to represent a unified people, overrides institutional checks in the name of higher constitutional fidelity. CC BY-SA 4.0 Authoritarianism Carl Schmitt Colombia Colombian Constitutional Court Democratic Backsliding Kolumbien (DE-588)4031812-6 gnd Kolumbien Pulido Ortiz, Fabio Enrique Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/colombia-authoritarian-turn/ raw object