Last hour of the trial against former president Álvaro Uribe, live | Colombia measures the impact of a conviction or an acquittal

The decision made by a judge in Bogotá today at the trial against former president Álvaro Uribe Vélez will be important not only legally but politically for Colombia, since the country is less than a year after the legislative elections (in March 2026), and presidential (in May of the same year). The former president’s party is weakened from the 2022 elections, after the low popularity of a pupil of Uribe, former President Iván Duque, who ruled from 2018 to 2022. Recently, in June, the community was a victim of political violence, after an attack in the capital against Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay, who led the polls in the party, and who is still in the process of recovery after a shot after a recovery. If Álvaro Uribe is convicted, several consider that this would make the campaign even more difficult for several fronts. Others, that Uribismo will seek to strengthen claiming that it was a political trial, or Lawfare One question is if the left senator Iván Cepeda, who took Uribe to the bench, will be launched as a presidential candidate in case his political enemy is condemned. An acquittal, on the other hand, could strengthen Uribism for 2026, claiming that everything was a political judgment but the most popular president in history to get unharmed.