La revocatoria del mandato como mecanismo de participación democrática en Colombia 1991-2016: análisis legal, doctrinal y jurisprudencial.

Abstract

This research is framed within the current debate that is made of the revocation of mandate in the contemporary democracies, as a special modality of the mechanisms of citizen participation, with respect to the benefits that it generates as instrument of political and social control, of the actions of The presidents in an electoral way and for the fulfillment of the State's aims, intends to give a conceptual approach from legal dogmatics, jurisprudence and doctrine. It also aims to explore some critical elements of this institution of contemporary constitutional law. It intends to carry out a review of the revocation of mandate, understanding it as a mainly political right that citizens use to terminate the mandate conferred by popular vote, a governor or a mayor, especially studying each of their requirements of provenance. Such as the fact that it must be at least a year that must be counted from the time the official takes office. The investigation starts from the particular conception that the revocation of mandate is based on the power of the people, who has an intellectual assumption in the principle of popular sovereignty, that allows the citizens in general to remove from their position the official who has previously Elected as its representative.