BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombian senators yesterday approved a proposed referendum on whether President Alvaro Uribe can run for re-election in 2010, taking the popular conservative one step closer to an unprecedented third term.
Uribe has still not said whether he will run and the re-election proposal must now go before a commission of lawmakers to resolve a dispute over whether its wording allows immediate re-election or only in 2014. The constitutional court must then approve it before any referendum later this year.
