Editing Recall election (section)

=== Colombia ===
In Colombia, the recall referendum was included by the [[Colombian Constitution of 1991|constitution]] in 1991. The constitutional replacement was launched as an answer to the movement known as [[Colombian Constitution of 1991#Student movement and the séptima papeleta|''la séptima papeleta'']] (the seventh ballot), which requested a constitutional reform to end violence, narcoterrorism, corruption and increasing citizenship apathy. The definition of recall referendum in relation to programmatic vote was approved.{{clarify|date=June 2019}} It obliges candidates running for office to register a government plan which is later on considered to activate the recall.{{clarify|date=June 2019}} Since the time the mechanism was regulated by Law 134 in 1994, until 2015, 161 attempts led 41 referendums and none of them succeeded since the threshold of participation was not reached. In 2015, a new law (303/2015) reduced the number of signatures required to activate a recall referendum (from 40 per cent to 30 per cent of the total of votes obtained by the elected authority) and the threshold (dropping from the 50 per cent to the 40 per cent of valid votes on the day of the elections of the challenged authority). The change in the regulation, also quickening the registration of promoters, led to a considerable increase in the number of attempts.<ref>{{Cite journal | doi=10.1080/13510347.2017.1421176|title = Playing by the rules of the game: Partisan use of recall referendums in Colombia| journal=Democratization| volume=25| issue=8| pages=1379–1396|year = 2018|last1 = Welp|first1 = Yanina| last2=Milanese| first2=Juan Pablo|s2cid = 148682037|url = https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/157703/1/Welp2_2018.pdf}}</ref>