Interview Senator John Sudarsky, part four

Senator John Sudarsky spoke to Colombia Politics about democracy, Colombia´s political system, the challenges the country faces, the peace talks with the FARC, and his proposed reform to the electoral process.

This is the fourth extract from the interview, where Senator Sudarsky talks about the prospects for his electoral reform, its importance to the peace process, and the inherent lack of accountability in Colombian democracy.

Key quote:

“In Spanish you don’t have a word for ‘accountability’, in Swedish you don’t have a word for ‘clientalism’. In Spanish you have a paragraph to explain accountability – it is absent from the culture.”

Thanks to Notedije Producciones for filming and editing the interview.