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Chamber of Representatives

  • Spanish: Cámara de Representantes

Governs Colombia · Part of Congress of the Republic of Colombia

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  • (set by law; may still move) General election · Representative

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  • Elects the Ombudsman and brings accusations against the President

    The Chamber elects the Ombudsman (Defensor del Pueblo), examines the Comptroller General's budget account and brings accusations against the President and senior officials before the Senate (Constitution Art. 178).

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  • Elects the Ombudsman and brings accusations against the President constituteproject.org · checked
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  • constituteproject.org · checked Constitute Project, Colombia Constitution of 1991 with amendments through 2015 (English), read 2026-10-12: Arts. 112, 114, 115, 150, 171, 176, 189-190, 202, 208, 234-235, 239, 241 for the structure, selection and competences of the presidency, cabinet, Congress and high courts. Seat counts for the 2026-2030 Congress also from Wikipedia, 2026 Colombian parliamentary election (en.wikipedia.org), read 2026-10-12. Authority websites from the bodies themselves. For: Chamber of Representatives
  • constituteproject.org · checked Spanish official names of the Colombian bodies and offices as used in the Constitution of 1991 and the bodies own sites, read 2026-10-12. Cabinet name Consejo de Ministros is marked unofficial (the Constitution calls it Gobierno Nacional). For: Chamber of Representatives in Spanish
  • constituteproject.org · checked Constitute Project, Colombia Constitution 1991 as amended to 2015 (English), read 2026-10-12: article cited in the description. For: Elects the Ombudsman and brings accusations against the President
  • constituteproject.org · checked Constitute Project, Colombia Constitution 1991 as amended to 2015, read 2026-10-12: selection method and seats of this office (Arts. 112, 171, 176, 189, 190, 202, 231, 239). Seat totals for 2026-2030 (Senate 100+2+1, Chamber 161+2+1+1+1+16+1) from Wikipedia, 2026 Colombian parliamentary election, read 2026-10-12, cross-checked with CNE declaration of the Senate (El Universal, 2026-07-14). Court sizes (9 and 23) from Law 270 of 1996, not re-read this run. For: President of the Chamber of Representatives, Representative
  • valoraanalitik.com · checked Valora Analitik list of elected representatives 2026-2030, read 2026-10-12: Nicolas Barguil Cubillos elected for Cordoba (Partido Conservador). Fallback: news list, because camara.gov.co member pages load dynamically; the list has internal inconsistencies so no other representatives were loaded. For: Nicolás Antonio Barguil Cubillos as Representative
  • eluniversal.com.co · checked El Universal, Asi quedaron las mesas directivas en el Senado y la Camara para el 2026-2027, 2026-07-21, read 2026-10-12: presiding officers elected 20 July 2026. Fallback: news report, because the chambers official sites do not list the mesa directiva in static HTML. For: Nicolás Antonio Barguil Cubillos as President of the Chamber of Representatives
  • constituteproject.org · checked Constitution Art. 190 (four-year term, run-off three weeks later), read 2026-10-12; date follows the last-Sunday-of-May (presidential) and second-Sunday-of-March (Congress) pattern of 2018-2026 (Wikipedia, 2026 Colombian presidential election and parliamentary election, read 2026-10-12). Not yet scheduled by the Registraduria, hence date_confirmed=false. For: General election, March 10, 2030

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