The newly elected Congress of the Republic, set to serve until 2030, faces the challenge of transforming legislation amid low institutional favorability. Two analyses emphasize the need to end corrupt practices and promote economic freedom to boost the country's development. Lawmakers are urged to prioritize reforms in health, education, and pensions, along with greater deliberation in votes.
The newly elected Congress of the Republic will take office in July 2026 and handle the country's laws until 2030, according to an editorial in La República. Amid low institutional reputation, marked by bureaucracy, contracts, and lobbying by particular interests, there is a call to break the cycle of transactionalism that has permeated the Chamber and Senate for centuries. The general budget of $560 billones should not be used as "oil" for legislative operations that perpetuate corruption, but to foster regional development, a rational tax system, the defeat of informality, and autonomies in education, health, and infrastructure.
An analysis by María Claudia Lacouture, based on a study by the Instituto de Ciencia Política Hernán Echavarría Olózaga, evaluates the 2022-2026 period: 295 laws were sanctioned, rising from 65 in 2023 to 120 in 2025, but with partial restrictions on economic freedom in 17 key projects. Four became law: the 2022 tax reform, 2024 pension reform, 2025 labor reform, and 2025 reform for small and medium agricultural producers. Only the project on digital transport platforms exceeded 61 points (64), while 12 had severe restrictions. Lacouture recommends that before approving taxes or regulations, congressmen ask if they lower costs, protect rights, and stimulate competition, and advocates for nominal votes to ensure traceability and accountability.
Both texts emphasize that the new Congress must be plural, innovative, and focused on 21st-century challenges, representing regions and selecting the best citizens for the Senate with national integrity. If at the end of the period an entrepreneur opens a business faster, a worker accesses more formal options, and a family saves without shocks, they will have "made homeland," Lacouture concludes.
