Newly inaugurated Colombian president Abelardo de la Espriella has launched his administration by moving ahead with plans to designate alternate seat-of-government cities, deliberately bypassing Bogotá in the opening days of his term. The measure, announced ahead of his inauguration, sees three cities take on functions typically centralised in the capital, and has so far been accompanied by a flurry of executive decrees. The initiative signals a broader push to decentralise political power in Colombia, a country long dominated by its Andean capital, and is being closely watched as a test of whether such structural reforms can be sustained beyond the symbolic gestures of a new government's first hours.