The crisis of confidence in the electoral results also strikes the judges of the Republic, who are responsible for carrying out the counting, that is, the confirmation of the votes obtained by each corporation. Their work, every four years, they assure is impartial and serious, but as a result of the questioning of the governing party, the institutions are delegitimized and constitute a new contempt of that independent power.
“To even think about invalidating or ignoring an electoral process, which has been verified by the judiciary responsibly and neatly, when it simply does not benefit the interests of the governing party, ignores the constitutional principles and postulates, which our political charter clearly defines in article 1 as of a Social, Democratic and Law State, based on ideological and political plurality and on the autonomy and independence of the powers, which in their harmonious collaboration must guarantee the unity of the Republic,” said the National Association of Workers of the Colombian Judicial System (Asonal Judicial).
After the electoral elections, judges receive votes and ballots in the municipal capitals and Bogotá, in order to carry out a new count confirming the figures. That process concluded that the pre-count had hundreds of errors that led to different results from those initially reported and granting 3 more seats to the Historical Pact, the most voted list.
“Now, the governing party headed by its highest director, former President Álvaro Uribe Vélez, in the face of the defeat suffered by that community in the elections held on March 13, is openly ignoring the results of the elections, because they did not agree with the information provided by the Registry on the day of the same. In the actual counting, that subsequently carried out by judges and notaries as tellers and clavers, the final count was reviewed throughout the week and corrected the errors and failures detected, and even the investigation was ordered before the supervisory bodies of criminal conduct in which they could the voting juries be immersed”, said the union.
According to officials, there is no basis for requesting a general recount of the Senate elections, as did Registrar Alexander Vega and President Iván Duque himself, because more than 5,000 judges performed serious and impartial scrutiny work, so questioning them can “be a prelude to casting behind the electoral process, which would be nothing different than a civil coup d'état to the Constitution”.
“Contrary to the impartiality that must accompany a government that prides itself as democratic in the elections, the President of the Republic, in the face of the voices of confusion and disagreement of the governing party due to the decline suffered at the polls, convened, for this Tuesday, the Electoral Guarantees Commission and the Registrar National Civil Status, submissively and obsequently, comes out to propose that the vote count for the senate be repeated, at the national level,” said Asonal.
They also assure that crimes such as prevarication by action, abuse of public function and other unlawful conduct that we are reviewing could be committed. In addition, they denounce that “dozens of judges in the country who say that in the counting they handed down hundreds of votes in favor of collectivities such as the Historical Pact and others and the officials of the Registrar's Office in the E 24 act placed 0 ″.
Judicial officials called on the Superior Council of the Judiciary and the High Courts to close ranks around judicial autonomy and independence and called on President Ivan Duque to cease attacks on its members, as when he tried to ignore the decision to decriminalize abortion and asserted that 5 people could not to decide it, with reference to its judges.
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