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A system explainer built from country metadata, linked institutions, office timelines, elections, and parties.
Colombia operates under a unitary presidential constitutional republic system in the current dataset.
Colombia is tracked in PoliticaHub as a unitary presidential constitutional republic, which gives the page a baseline answer to how executive and legislative authority are arranged.
The executive structure is recorded as: Directly elected president serving a single four-year term. Re-election is constitutionally prohibited. The vice president is elected on the same ticket as the president..
The current constitutional order is linked to 1991, which is a useful anchor for understanding when the present institutional design took shape.
Congress of the Republic (Senate and Chamber of Representatives) is the named legislature in the metadata, and it provides the clearest shorthand for where national lawmaking is centered.
1 institutions are linked to Colombia, which helps map the legislature, executive bodies, or other constitutional actors around the state.
83 parties are connected to Colombia, giving this system page a party-system layer rather than treating institutions in isolation.
The most recent linked election is Colombia 2026 Presidential Election, and it acts as the best available marker of how the present balance of power was produced.
The next scheduled election in the graph is Colombia 2026 Presidential Election, which gives readers a direct path from system design to the next test of that system.
