It is not yet known who will definitively occupy the seats in Antioquia, CNE suspended official declaration

In the last few hours, it was confirmed that the National Electoral Council suspended the official declaration of the 17 representatives to the House elected by Antioquia until eight complaints against the Departmental Counting Commission have been resolved for changes between pre-counting and counting.

These new complaints were lodged by the parties against the Departmental Counting Commission for their decision to deny the first 740 complaints lodged during the counting.

It is worth noting that most of these demands have been made by the Democratic Center for the seat that Jhon Jairo Berrío would lose, in favor of Luz María Múnera of the Historical Pact, who won 34,000 new votes, while the governing party had 6,000 votes subtracted compared to the pre-count.

According to Berrío, due to irregularities, new votes appeared to the Historical Pact “in Bello there are more than 3,200, in Envigado 1,300, in Itagüí 1,100, Sabaneta 1,100, Copacabana 900 and so on, in an inexplicable way because there are no changes in the voting records”.

On the contrary, Luz María Múnera denounced, through Twitter, that on March 21, after consolidating the figures of the Departmental Counting Commission of Antioquia, which gave the Historical Pact all 255,372 votes to the Chamber, and CD 424,137, changes began to appear, after five days of recess and scrutiny.

It also noted that on March 26, the Commission resumed the hearing with Resolution 001A of that same date, issued by the same Commission and its CNE judges, who decided to correct some figures returned from the crossing of formats E-14 and E-24. There, Múnera pointed out, the Democratic Center recovered 657 votes and the Covenant 716.

The irregularities occurred, according to Múnera, on Saturday night, March 26, when the “Commission published a partial in which they only added votes to the CD, since that day they had not managed, in public hearing, to make all the corrections. They continued Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.”

However, Múnera assures that after supposedly completing the corrections he received a Commission Minute, “signed as if it had closed, which, as of yesterday (29 March), maintains the same figures as Saturday. That is, the Covenant does not add one vote out of the 716 of the resolution”.

Given this, Múnera demanded that the authorities “clarify this situation, which is contrary to the law and the resolution of the Departmental Counting Commission, which since Sunday has argued “failures in the system”. Why do these failures today only benefit the CD and harm the Historical Pact? ” he wrote on Twitter.

The elected representative clarified that, for now, she maintains the seat she obtained, but that she warns these alleged irregularities “because we bet on justice, that they assign us the votes that citizens entrusted to us at the polls to legislate the great changes in Colombia. I embrace them with immense gratitude and respect.”

For now it is known that Antioquia will have 34 congressmen in the new legislature, since there are fourteen elected senators and the 20 representatives, including the two peace seats and the chair of the Commons Party.

According to data shared by Senator Gustavo Bolívar, the Historical Pact has counted 2,800,730 votes, adding one more seat, making it the most voted list in the country in a legislative election.

According to the calculations and information provided by Senator Gustavo Bolívar, the 20th seat of the Historical Pact would be held by leader Jahel Quiroga, director of Corporación Reiniciar and former member of the Patriotic Union, a movement of which has raised the flag throughout history, in search of contributing to the clarification of the events that allowed the extermination of that movement.

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