Bibliographic citations
Alejos, M., (2023). Sentencia de la Corte Interamericana : Caso Petro Urrego vs. Colombia. Sentencia del 8 de julio de 2020 [Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú]. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12404/25688
Alejos, M., Sentencia de la Corte Interamericana : Caso Petro Urrego vs. Colombia. Sentencia del 8 de julio de 2020 []. PE: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú; 2023. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12404/25688
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title = "Sentencia de la Corte Interamericana : Caso Petro Urrego vs. Colombia. Sentencia del 8 de julio de 2020",
author = "Alejos Mata, Marita del Pilar",
publisher = "Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú",
year = "2023"
}
The object of analysis of this report focuses on the interpretation used by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of article 23.2 of the American Convention in the Petro Urrego v. Colombia judgment. The article provides that the only way to restrict political rights is through a penal instance, and in the argumentation used by the judges in the Petro Urrego case, it is reaffirmed that the article is restrictive. Moreover, any restriction of political rights that is not contemplated in article 23 of the Convention will violate it. This is problematic, since it generates incompatibility with another instance that restricts political rights but is not of a criminal nature, such as impeachment. Therefore, an analysis will be made of the jurisprudential line of the Court regarding the nature of article 23.2, addressing the restriction of political rights. Thus, the exceptions that the Court has considered to regulate or restrict these rights will be identified. Secondly, it will be addressed how article 23.2 should be interpreted in order to maintain the conventionality of the impeachment trial. For this purpose, reference will be made to the concurring vote of Justice Garcia Sayan, who proposes going beyond the restrictive interpretation of article 23 of the Convention by applying the criteria of systematic, evolutionary and teleological interpretation. Finally, it will de evaluated whether the impeachment trial meets the requirements established by the Court to be considered, exceptionally, as a way of restricting political rights that does not violate the Convention.
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