from the Al Jazeera News:
The mayor of the Colombian capital Bogota is refusing to step down after being ordered to leave office over his handling of the city’s waste management last year.
Colombia’s inspector-general ordered mayor Gustavo Petro removed from office on Monday and banished him from politics for 15 years, deeming unconstitutional his behaviour in a showdown with private garbage collectors.
Petro refused to accept the decision by Alejandro Ordonez, a conservative ally of former President Alvaro Uribe, and called supporters into the streets.
“I remain the mayor of Bogota,” Petro, a former M-19 rebel, proclaimed on the municipal TV channel, though legal experts said he must heed Ordonez’s decision if the inspector-general denies the appeal the mayor said he was lodging.
Under the constitution, Ordonez is the last resort.
“We have governed with zero corruption,” Petro told viewers.