Historic Pact would be winning two or three more senators after electoral control: direction

The leaders of the parties that made up the Historic Pact coalition, the most voted in the March 13 elections, are excited about the results that their requests for recount of votes are yielding.

According to Susana Muhamad, Bogotá councillor and vice-president of the Colombia Humana movement, adhered to the Covenant by its natural leader, candidate Gustavo Petro, the list on the left would be recovering 486,000 votes in its closed list to the Senate alone.

It should be recalled that the latest bulletin of the National Civil Status Registry, published at 3:40 in the morning of Monday, March 14 and which included 99.41% of the country's tables, says that the non-preferential list of the Historical Pact would have won a total of 16 seats.

The same number of seats was obtained by the Conservative Party, according to the results of the manual pre-count held by the voting juries after the polls closed. However, the blue party or some others could reduce the number of seats won if these claims are taken seriously.

If this discrepancy in votes is recognized by the judges of the Republic, who are doing official scrutiny, the Historical Pact would be left with 18 or 19 senators in total and would be the largest bench of that corporation.

In addition to statements by members of the Historical Pact, the National Registry is facing a hostile environment because cyberusers are massively consulting forms E-14 and find that the candidate or party they voted for appears with zero votes, so that their vote and that of others would have been omitted.

The Historical Pact, Citizens' Force, Green Alliance and even the New Liberalism have made demands on this matter. So has the Electoral Observation Mission (EOM).

Alejandra Barrios, director of the EOM, explained that the inconsistencies “range from improper filling of form boxes and incorrect sums of votes cast, inadequate capture of them in the pre-counting system, to cases of manipulation and alteration of the results deposited on the form by voting juries, which have even been publicly recognized”.

After all these questions, the Registrar General, Alexander Vega, had to come out, who stated at a press conference that “there is no fraud in Colombia and there is no possibility of fraud in Colombia, considering that several actors are involved in the electoral process”, such as the more than 200,000 electoral witnesses, the six electoral observation missions and voting juries drawn from university lists and from public and private companies.

In addition, he attributed the discrepancies found so far on the E-14 forms to human errors committed by the juries during the first count — even when the trainings asked for it to be counted without concern. He assured that one cannot suspect the bad faith of so many people.

For this reason, Vega says it is still hasty to say that a party has won or lost votes and seats between this Sunday and Thursday, and that the official consolidation of the Colombian Congress will be ratified this Friday, probably as it had already been established on Sunday.

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