In recent days, the stir over the counting of votes, which is not the same as the pre-count, of the legislative elections of last Sunday, March 13, has not stopped and now, even former presidents are saying that they will not accept the results presented by the Registrar.
Likewise, politicians belonging to right-wing parties joined the criticism of the scrutiny and the loss of seats that directly affect their communities and took over the word fraud that flooded their trills.
One of the applicants, who during the pre-count held once the polls closed reached a seat in the congress and who lost it to the count, Miguel Polo Polo, also joined the accusations and questions to the work of the registry office and denounced that what is happening is “the greatest fraud in the history of Colombia”.
And it is understandable, the former candidate had achieved a not insignificant vote, which he once met her did not delay in thanking on his social networks saying that, with his election, a new right-wing party was born in Colombia.
So far, nothing unusual, (without ignoring, of course, how rare the irregularities in the counting of votes are), but it is striking that Miguel Polo Polo makes these strong demands and denunciations when for him, not long ago, in 2018, this type of special constituency, the Afro, the indigenous one, should not exist anymore, because for him they go against that ideal of equality that they proclaim.
And it is that, as is often the case, the past does not forgive, and as some old people say, 'the tongue is the whip of the ass' and now, on Twitter, they have brought out her words and rescued a tweet from 2018 to confront her lack of coherence and ponder the paradoxical nature of launching herself for a curul that asked her to be eliminated.
However, this is not the only controversy in which the former candidate Polo Polo has been involved, because it is worth remembering that on Monday, during an interview on W radio, he stated that he registered as a candidate for the negritudes because he “felt like it” and identifies himself as blackness.
After the interview, it became known that Polo Polo, who was born in Tolú, had declared himself an indigenous couple of years ago to apply for a scholarship, as supported by a document from the Ministry of the Interior.
Faced with these revelations, whoever was elected representative to the chamber for a couple of days, began to attack the station from his social networks, and FLIP did not hold back and sent a strong statement to Polo Polo.
FLIP urged Polo Polo not to stigmatize the press. “As elected representative to the House you must respect journalists. Its trills go against international and national standards of press freedom, discredit the work of the media, and promote a hostile environment for journalists,” warned the organization that ensures that Colombian journalists can carry out their work.
And it was not the only objection that FLIP made to the political activist and reminded him of the harsh criticism it made of journalist Paola Herrera, as well as the other members of that radio station, and that is why they urged him to receive criticism in a more assertive way.
“Miguel Polo must be more tolerant of criticism. If you consider that there is imprecise information in the published note, you should go to democratic mechanisms such as a request for rectification and not to guardianships or criminal complaints,” recommended FLIP.
They also asked Polo Polo to commit “publicly to respect freedom of the press, combat misinformation and promote an optimal climate for journalism, signing this declaration to which other congressmen have already signed.”
However, as the popular adage says, FLIP's recommendations to Miguel Polo Polo went into one ear and came out of him through another, as he not only reacted with vehemence, insults and low qualifications to the recommendation, but also called for ignoring the work of the national entity.
“I invite you to combat the misinformation that W Radio is spreading against me. Don't be complicit. I have never applied for or received a scholarship as an indigenous person and the leadership of Comunidades Negras was not the one who endorsed me,” said the young man, a native of Tuluá.
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