By: Aníbal Charry González
The Government of President Petro has appointed a commission of experts to propose the umpteenth reform of justice that hopefully will not be unsuccessful as has happened with the previous reforms that are poorly counted 16, a product of the lack of clarity and political will of the previous governments. to carry out a comprehensive reform that responds to an authentic solution to the incurable problems of late payment, impunity and corruption in the sector, and to the conflicting interests that bubble in the Legislature that have led to the failure of the always postponed reform as happened in the Santos government , where the Constitutional Court finally stated that it replaced the Constitution with the elimination of the commission of accusations and the creation of a court of qualified persons.
The first thing to say is that we are skeptical of the results of said commission, and even more so when there is no clarity about the Government’s intentions on the issue that has required a commission, which is known to be the best way to delay solutions to an endemic problem like the one that exists in justice, without even being able to lay the foundations for its solution, maintaining its precarious and aberrant situation of impunity, inefficiency and corruption, as we are the only country in the world with a toga poster in the high courts.
Because as stated by the Minister of Justice Néstor Osuna, it is not known if what is proposed is a comprehensive reform of justice, or a simple judicial reform that changes things to remain the same, because as former attorney Alfonso Gómez Méndez said , we would have to ask what he really wants, when he maintains through the mouth of the minister that “he is especially interested in reforms that allow justice to be turned towards the clarification of the truth, towards greater effectiveness in the fight against corruption, towards the full enjoyment of rights by the entire population, which includes the strengthening of differential approaches, and especially more justice…” Better said: the Arcadia of justice, not only judicial but also social, in a country that has systematically lacked them.
Colossal undertaking that has not been able to be carried out in this violent and unjust country, where it would be enough for governments to have true political will to solve the chronic problems of justice with a large budget that has never been provided, in order for At least we have the international average of 65 judges per 100,000 inhabitants and not 11 as we have, to try to break the back of the aberrant impunity in 98 percent of crimes, starting with those committed by those with jurisdiction, creating a true judge who round them and not the imitation that we have in the shameful commission of accusations, which can only be done with the primary constituent as the Court already said, that is, practically impossible. That is why we are skeptical about the results of the umpteenth justice reform.