Gustavo Petro continues as mayor of Bogota

Gustavo Petro, the current mayor of Bogota, achieved last Tuesday that his prohibition to hold a public office for 15 years, be suspended for the moment, thanks to a court decision that gave him at least 10 days more in power.

The Attorney General’s Office, than in Colombia is the organization that supervises the performance of public servants, took the  drastic sanction last December for failures in the implementation of a new cleaning system in the Colombian capital in December 2012.

In its strategy to stay in power the mayor has also resorted to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to request precautionary measures to suspend the sanction, which he is waiting to happen urgently, once became definitive on Monday.

In this way, he is trying to avoid that President Santos gives way to the judgment of the Attorney General’s Office by appointing a mayor in charge and calling for new elections.