Prosecutor's Office opens investigation into the registrar for alleged irregularities in legislative elections

The Attorney General's Office announced Friday the opening of a disciplinary investigation against the National Registrar of Civil Status, Alexander Vega, for the alleged irregularities that occurred during the legislative elections held on March 13.

This was announced by the Attorney General of the Nation, Marguita Cabello, who indicated that this decision was made on the basis of repeated complaints expressed by different citizen and political sectors, and on the analysis of information carried out by the Public Prosecutor's Office, which correspond to the multiple anomalies that have been carried out by the Public Prosecutor's Office. recorded in the middle of the legislative elections.

“The investigation seeks to determine whether the registrar could commit disciplinary offenses related to alleged irregularities in state selection and recruitment and a possible omission in voting control functions and in the training of juries,” the prosecutor explained through a video.

He also indicated that the watchdog opened a preliminary inquiry to some Registrar officials into the irregularities that had occurred in the ballot registration processes or the transfer of voting stations during election day, in which the new constitution of the Congress and the single candidates of the political coalitions who will compete in the first presidential round.

On the other hand, he assured that the Elite team of the Public Prosecutor's Office, consisting of four delegated procurators, had already taken the first decisions regarding the 1,600 complaints received and 400 complaints, determining that 33 disciplinary proceedings were opened for possible irregularities committed by juries for voting, vote buying, constraint on the voter and errors in the registration of ballots.

The Electoral Observation Mission (MOE) asked the National Civil Status Registry to provide clear and sufficient explanations regarding the inconsistencies that arose in the process of pre-counting the legislative elections of March 13. He also asked citizens and political organizations to continue to monitor the counting process with “special attention and peace of mind”.

The analysis of the pre-counting results and the development of the scrutiny carried out by the EOM showed a pattern of inconsistencies in the transmission of information. According to the organization, this situation affected “the results of the pre-count of the Congress of the Republic, both of the Senate and the House of Representatives”.

In the review for the Senate, the EOM evidenced a few weeks ago that, “the results of the pre-count were not consistent, neither with the information contained in the E-14 forms, nor with the processing of results that is being carried out in the counting committees.”

In fact, faced with the irregularities that arose with the Historical Pact, the director of the EOM, Alejandra Barrios, pointed out that there was “atypical behavior” with these votes. The organization requested verification of 28,466 tables in which the coalition had no votes.

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