A court in Colombia ordered President Iván Duque to be fined and placed under house arrest for five days due to his failure to comply with a previous ruling that demanded protecting a national park.
Experts indicated that the court's order has no chance of being carried out as the Colombian president can only be accused and investigated by a special legislative commission, and can only be tried by the country's congress.
Duque was accused of failing to enact measures to protect the Los Nevados national park as ordered by Colombia's Supreme Court in 2020, the superior court of Ibague said in a statement explaining its ruling.
Moreover, the court imposed a fine on the president of roughly $4,000 and ordered that he create a special unit of police or military members to help carry out conservation work at the park.
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In response, Duque insisted his government has protected Colombia's natural parks and complied with the court order to conserve the Los Nevados national park.
"We've seen an inexplicable initial ruling," he said in a video shared on social media, calling the court decision unconstitutional and insisting that the Supreme Court's order had already been carried out. He also highlighted his governemnt's achievemnets through the years.
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On his part, Justice Minister Wilson Ruiz told reporters that evidence demonstrating Duque's compliance with the Supreme Court's order was sent to the court in Ibague but was ignored.
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