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Colombia became a political crossroads to another in a few hours after the Constitutional Court repealed the call for a referendum on the second re-election of Alvaro Uribe.

Thus, the court held the "crossroads of the soul" who claimed to have Uribe on a new mandate, but led to another with the start of one of the shortest presidential campaigns and intense in recent years in this country.

"anything can happen here and we are facing something unprecedented," he anticipates the BBC Napoleon Franco, director of one of the most prestigious polling firms Colombia.

The spotlight is on a half-dozen candidates who could win the presidential election, whose first round vote on May 30.

The main cards in the pack are former ministers Juan Manuel Santos, Rafael Pardo, Noemi Sanin and Martha Lucia Ramirez, the former mayor Sergio Fajardo, Enrique Peñalosa, Antanas Mockus and Luis Eduardo Garzon, the former congressman and Germain Vargas Lleras Senator Gustavo Petro.

All political analysts polled by BBC World are convinced that none of the candidates currently has more than 50 percent of the votes to win in the first round.

"I think the second round in mid-June and will, surely, Juan Manuel Santos, Uribe as representation, but do not know who will be the tab is not Uribe," says Franco.

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One of the big unknowns is the role that Uribe played in the presidential election.
In this scenario, most have moved away from Uribe are Petro, of the leftist Alternative Democratic Pole PDA, Pardo, the Liberal Party and former Mayor Garzón.

Speaking to BBC World, the former Liberal minister Jaime Castro stressed that "no candidate has more than 20% of the voting intentions" and adds that when the elections are "a minimum difference is fundamental to advance to the second round. "

And that partnerships will play a lot to be in the coming days, especially after the congressional elections, which will be on March 14, when presidential candidates define the Conservative Party and the Green Party.

From other side, Senator Jorge Enrique Robledo, the PDA provides that "Uribe candidate will be conflicts between Uribe and who knows what may happen in sectors such as the Conservative Party. "

While Robledo Castro and do not give many options to the former mayor of Bogotá Peñalosa, Mockus and Garzon, who are part of the Party Green, Napoleon Franco believes that can not be dismissed that option.

"The presidential elections will be like a piñata or a raffle," insisted Castro.

Another big unknown is what role Uribe played in the campaign, despite the government announced that it will be impartial in the conflict.

Because despite the crushing defeat of the referendum in court, it is clear Uribe is still a first-rate political player in Colombia, after the governor for eight years. Bbc source

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If the high court denies the norm, will be buried a third consecutive term in the head of state.

Whatever the decision, shall be by simple majority of nine judges and the decision is final.

The discussion of the day is the seventh of nine Constitutional Court judges have done in recent weeks about the referendum law, passed by Congress in late 2009.

The debate begins at 09.00 local time (14:00 GMT) and is expected in the afternoon, the presiding judge, Mauricio Gonzalez, announce whether it is constitutional or not the law that calls for the consultation.

The decision of the court will decide whether or not Uribe can claim a second consecutive reelection.

Asked in the day by the radio network ABC stations on its position concerning the decision of the Court, Uribe responded that "in any case, I have not lost the desire (desire) to work in Colombia, from any position, any circumstances until the last day of life. "

"I wanted to make prudent for institutions democratic, in this case the Constitutional Court can devise quietly, "added the president, who for months has declined to say publicly whether or not a third term. "So under any circumstances tell the Colombians in heart, do not abandon the path ... the path of 'democratic security,'" Uribe said, referring to its security policy or battle against illegal armed groups, especially the guerrillas.

Uribe, 57, with margins of popularity above 60%, has all along.

Many experts, and most of the media take for granted that the Court Constitution, the highest body for resolving matters of the Constitution, shall act against the law because apparently the process or approval process in Congress had several flaws.

the day's discussion focused on a draft decision prepared by one of the judges, and the content although it has not been officially disclosed, would indicate that the law violated several rules query, as that was adopted at a meeting whose special call was issued subsequent to the meeting and not before, as indicated by internal rules of the House.

Already in 2005 the same Court had given the green light to an amendment to the Constitution and introduced the re-election immediately for a further term of four years.

With this modification, in 2006 Uribe won a second term of four years.

This time if the referendum goes ahead law in court, Uribe will be against two obstacles.

The first is that if the referendum is approved, the National Registry, the first Colombian-election authority will need at least two months to organize the consultation and now the National Registrar, Carlos Ariel Sánchez, said that Uribe is legally until March 12, the deadline to register as a candidate.

But also, if the query is performed, the agent need some 7.5 million votes, or 25% of the electoral roll, according to the rules covered here, for the choice of constitutional reform itself so that it is approved.

in Colombia's presidential election is 30 May. NEWS SOURCE

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