La doble militancia. Retos y oportunidades de una legislación incipiente.

Abstract

New democratic systems evolve, and to avoid direct participation that significantly affects the functioning of the State and makes it slow, they change to representativeness schemes through legitimately elected institutions using mechanisms of popular participation.

The political parties or movements are the institutions that collect that popular interest, because it is through these parties that the exercise of representation is carried out. The policy is grouped in these institutions.

We will know in this document the concept and the regime applicable to political parties, political movements and significant groups of citizens, highlighting the importance that they have in the Colombian legal system.

On the other hand, we have historically observed how people who pretend to represent citizens politically, constantly change political ideology being in various parties, even at political extremes.

The prohibition of double militancy seeks to limit these political transits, delivering political security to voters and preventing members of political parties from changing political positions by damaging political identity. In Colombia in recent years regulations have been issued to prohibit and regulate double militancy or political transfuguism. In this document we will analyze this incipient regime, evaluating the challenges and opportunities that it will face in the future.