Overview
- The Senate Constitutional Commission, led by Carlos Mesía, will vote the predictamen on Thursday, October 15, and approval would send the revised text to the Senate plenary on Monday, October 19 for final debate.
- The draft adds several security measures not in the deputies' text, including temporary Armed Forces support for prison perimeter security, post‑penitentiary supervised release with registries for high‑risk offenders, and criteria to label organized groups as 'hostile'.
- Law and institutional changes in the predictamen would adjust rules on use of force (Decreto 1095), strengthen the national intelligence system (Decreto 1141, SINA and DINI), and extend special investigative and asset measures to violent criminal networks while keeping the legal definition of terrorism unchanged.
- On infrastructure and oversight, the text limits administrative streamlining to prioritized El Niño projects, requires ministers to report on implementation to the Senate commission within set deadlines, and removes a proposed special career for juvenile‑center staff.
- The vote reflects a narrow political contest in a 12‑member commission where Fuerza Popular and Renovación Popular hold key seats, and its outcome will determine whether the Senate reshapes the Executive's 90‑day mandate or the Chamber of Deputies' original 20‑point text remains in force.