The lower house of Colombia's Congress overwhelmingly approved the repeal of a 2004 constitutional amendment that eliminated the oneterm limit for presidents.
The vote was 9010, with the only opposition coming from the party of former President Alvaro Uribe, who was behind the amendment authorizing presidential reelection.
Under the legislation, which has already passed the Senate, the only way presidential reelection can be revived is through a referendum held at the initiative of the public, or via the extraordinary mechanism of a constituent assembly.
Congress and President Juan Manuel Santos "kept their word" by eliminating presidential reelection from the constitution, lawmaker Telesforo Pedraza said following the vote in the lower house.
The amendment allowing the president to seek another term squeaked through Congress in 2004 thanks to the votes of two legislators who switched parties and were later sent to prison for corruption.
The amendment paved the way for Uribe, first elected in 2002, to seek and win a second term in 2006, but the Constitutional Court prevented him from running again in 2010.
Santos, who had served as defense minister under Uribe, won the 2010 race and was reelected in 2014 after pledging during the campaign to restore presidential term limits.