Gustavo Petro insists on the need for a vote count: “the pre-count has no legal validity”

Last Sunday, March 13, the elections for Congress and the consultations of the coalitions to establish the presidential candidates were held. From that same day, citizens from different areas of the country began to report various irregularities in the elections. Even though the Registrar's Office advances the recount of votes in departmental capitals, irregularities accumulate.

From problems at the time of voting, because many ballot papers were not registered in the polling stations for which the procedure was carried out, to the irregularities that were recently known with the software of the National Civil Registry where the results are uploaded, have been part of the wide range of complaints .

In that last complaint, a lawyer for Risaralda assured that the votes of the Historical Pact were not being loaded into the aforementioned software.

This Thursday, March 17, presidential candidate Gustavo Petro made a strong statement, through his Twitter account, on this situation.

The leader of Human Colombia assured that at least 300,000 votes from the Historical Pact for the Senate of the Republic were not reported, so the coalition would allegedly be taking away at least three seats.

Likewise, he said that there should be no further precounts because this process has no legal validity and pointed out that corruption was systematic at the polling stations.

“The pre-counting of votes has no legal validity, we have already seen that at least 300,000 votes from the Historical Pact to the Senate were not reported, they are at least 3 more seats. There should be no more precounts. The fact demonstrates systematic corruption in tens of thousands of table juries,” Gustavo Petro wrote on his Twitter account.

For his part, Gustavo Bolívar assured that the “fraud” that was done to the Historical Pact is one of the worst in history and suggested that there is no democracy in Colombia.

“Fraud to the Historical Pact is disgusting. One of the worst in history. Even if we recover 5 seats, we are notified: We are in the hands of thugs. There is no democracy when the vote of a citizen outraged by corruption ends up choosing a corrupt one,” he wrote on the social network.

Likewise, the councilwoman of Bogotá, Heidy Sánchez, assured that the counting commission of the Historical Pact reported that 500,000 votes have been recovered, “which today would give 20 more seats. Let's go for more,” he said through his social networks.

The reactions not only came from politicians, as ordinary citizens also expressed their opinion on the alleged electoral fraud that they have widely denounced on social networks.

“To say in Colombia that fraud does not occur in the electoral process is false, but to say that only one of the trends also committed it. Nobody purifies himself and becomes a melting pot unanimously in a single day,” is another comment on social networks.

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