Right Wing Candidates Reject Vote Count and Call for “Defending Democracy”

A whole controversy has developed after the legislative elections in the country, as the counting progresses, some irregularities are increasingly known and have been reported on social networks by politicians, voting juries and citizens. The Electoral Observation Mission warned of errors in the process of filling out E-14 forms. This would affect a large number of matches. On the other hand, Gustavo Petro says that they have already recovered almost 500,000 votes for the Historical Pact.

“The EOM has so far found multiple errors in the filling out of the E-14 forms by the juries who filled them out and which were disseminated through the pre-counting system,” said Alejandra Barrios, director of the Electoral Observation Mission.

On the other hand, the presidential candidate, Gustavo Petro assured that, “at this time 486,000 votes have been recovered for the Historical Pact to the Senate that were not reported. We're approaching three million votes for the list to the senate. I ask the counting lawyers to take care of the vote of Fuerza Ciudadana, there was fraud against them.”

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This has generated a flood of criticism about the National Registry of Colombia, so the registrar, Alexander Vega, gave a part of peace of mind and assured that, “scrutiny is taking place normally in all municipalities of Colombia.” And he assured that. “there is no fraud in Colombia, considering that several actors are involved in the electoral process” and that there were more than 6,000 electoral witnesses and six international observation missions that classified the elections as “transparent”.

He added that, “we have found, according to the counting commissions, that fraud cannot be committed in Colombia because several actors are involved. We have found studs (...) lack of signatures, amendments, scratches. Those inconsistencies happen and have not been against any particular party.”

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following the enormous controversy that has arisen over the results of the elections that took place last Sunday, March 13, several political actors have come out in favor of an in-depth investigation of the results of the elections, however another party claims that this could be a plan to steal the elections.

The leader of the Democratic Center, former President Álvaro Uribe Vélez, pointed out on Twitter the possibility of holding a referendum in the country, after the irregularities in the results of the legislative elections became known. “Could it be that they invented fraud, hid the ballot bags and reappeared? Does the country need a referendum?”

The future senator from the Democratic Center, Miguel Uribe Turbay, referred to this situation on his social networks and said that, “what is the explanation for the gap between the counting of votes and the counting? More than 500,000 votes appear from one day to the next. Very serious. It had never happened. We cannot allow democracy to be robbed from us.”

Senator Paloma Valencia pointed out that there are too many doubts about the Registrar's Office and the ballots that have been taking place since March 13. “The management of the Registrar's Office has been shameful. It's as if they had dismantled the entire existing system and started over.” In another trill he said, “Today there are too many doubts about the Registrar's Office and its role in the polls. And we don't have access to Indra's software; that he met secretly and secretly with Petro.”

Former President Andrés Pastrana, who has openly criticized presidential candidate Gustavo Petro, stated on his social networks that, “The two visitors to INDRA in Madrid, Gustavo Petro and the Registrar, leave from one day to the next with a save of half a million votes is absolutely abnormal. @Registraduria”.

Miguel Polo Polo, for his part, pointed out that, “#URGENTE my dear we are all going to verify on the Registrar's page that our registered VOTE appears in the E14 format. If the vote is not there please write internally and I will immediately take note of the case, they will not steal from us.”

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