Reglamentación del cabildeo o lobbismo en el Estatuto Anticorrupción colombiano

Abstract

This document was made through descriptive analysis, corresponds to the type of applied, proactive and projective research through which different concerns were raised about the need to regulate the practice of lobbying inserted in Article 61 of the Anticorruption Statute with a suitable mechanism and efficient to ensure the implementation of a regulation to the practice of lobbying with the limitation of its actions and to point to the solution to a legal problem to change the current situation in order to achieve the common benefit.

As express in the objectives regarding the increase of the Corruption indexes in Colombia due to the lack of regulations for the practice of Lobbying that leads to disinformation and conflict of interest in the major development decisions of the country, alternatives were also enunciated for the implementation of a practical process and that a single register of lobbyists or legislative interest managers can be created through alternate mechanisms or through private entities that exercise public functions, where they can keep track of and follow up on the interests they pursue the power groups and establish mechanisms of protection so that the citizens exercise a veedurías with spaces for analysis and discussion with an appropriate decision making in social justice and in search of the common good.

A proposal that ends in a regulation to Article 61 of the Colombian anti-corruption statute will be created so that the practical and lawful exercise of the Lobbying activity becomes a legal and daily activity within the discussions of the different development projects of the country. for the legislator to approve the analysis of technical and alternative studies for the projects and take into account the different analyzes.

Various documents on the subject were reviewed in countries of Europe, the United States, Argentina, Chile, Peru and Mexico, in the same way a large number of cases on lobbying and pressure groups in the Colombian legislative development were taken into account. It also leads us to think for the last time about the need for the creation of a legal mechanism to regulate this activity in our country. We also took into account some of the innumerable cases of corruption that occurred in the country during the last year and some aspects of the manner in which the anti-corruption consultation was conducted, voted on August 26, 2018