A new request for recount of votes, Ivan Marulanda asks the Green Alliance to collect more evidence

Over the past few days, photos have been circulating of forms where votes in favor of various alternative movements and parties are supposed to be omitted. The Senator of the Green Alliance, Luis Iván Marulanda Gómez, asked to collect evidence to demand that the National Electoral Council recount the votes.

According to the senator, conditions are being presented reminiscent of other cases of vote buying and “counting traps”. The questions have come from the Citizen Force and the Green Alliance.

Against this background, Ivan asked the three co-presidents of the Green Alliance (Antonio Navarro, Antanas Mockus and Carlos Ramón González) to form an “emergency team” to collect evidence and ask the National Electoral Council to order a count of all votes in the country.

The requests in this collective also came from Senator Antonio Sanguino, he also asked that the party act on the issue so that there will be a recount, although he emphasized his situation.

The senator also questioned that in most reports it had the same percentage of votes, which would not make sense because this percentage had to change as votes from different areas of the country entered. Antonio questioned that in the first reports it reached 17,000 votes and then slows down and stagnates at 700.

Finally, Sanguino mentioned that during the day they found several votes that belong to the Green Alliance that were not previously accredited. It is for all indications that the Bogotá senator also asked his party for action to clarify the situation.

Marulanda and Sanguino will call for a political control debate to hold the competent authorities accountable for alleged irregularities in the counts and the ballots.

Among those mentioned will be: the Minister of the Interior, the national registrar and the president of the National Electoral Council. The allegations were commented on by the candidate of Centro Esperanza, Sergio Fajardo.

The National Registrar of Civil Status Alexander Vega, along with a group of judges from the National Electoral Council, were summoned to a political control debate before the Congress of the Republic, due to alleged irregularities with the vote counts in the last legislative elections on March 13.

The Liberal Party ruled on this matter in the lead of Senator Guillermo García Realpe, who pointed out that one of the reasons that could have influenced the irregularities of the voting was the suspension of the Guarantees Act.

“There are many motivations for a debate, such as the blatant buying and selling of votes through jam from the national, departmental and municipal governments, there is a vulgarity since the fall of the Guarantees Act, as a bad example for all rulers. There are very suspicious votes, very high for some political organizations and cuts for certain candidates from the center, center left and left,” said Senator Liberal.

After the end of the election day last Sunday, March 13, the winner of the Historical Pact consultation, Gustavo Petro, denounced that approximately 29,000 polling stations did not register any votes for that coalition, a fact that he says is impossible.

In his statements to the media, the presidential candidate stated that, “with an early detection system that we are launching, we have detected 29 thousand tables out of 112 thousand that exist throughout the country where there is not a single vote for the Historical Pact, that is not possible given the magnitude of the vote already demonstrated, there are already taking place the appropriate procedures for opening these tables and counting vote by vote”, he said.

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