On Thursday night, a fire broke out at the headquarters of the National Registry of Civil Status in Valledupar (Cesar) that local firefighters managed to control around midnight.
In statements to the departmental outlet Cesar Noticias, the emergency agency said that they received a call for help from the entity's workers because the flames were consuming one of the offices on the second floor of the building where the headquarters archive and warehouse were located.
The firefighters had to use a machine to extinguish the conflagration and explained that they had to control hot spots because there was a lot of paper lying on the site, which could cause a new emergency.
Early versions pointed out that the accident was caused by a short circuit in one of the electrical devices inside the Registrar's headquarters.
Voting juries will change at more than 5,000 tables
This Thursday, April 7, it was announced that the National Civil Status Registry will change the voting juries for the next presidential elections that will be held in May of this year.
Less than two months before the elections to elect the next president and vice president of Colombia, the Registrar's Office announced that the juries of at least 5,109 tables throughout the country will be changed, where human errors or possible irregularities were recorded in the completion of E-14 forms.
According to the entity, this is done in order to provide peace of mind and guarantees to citizens who will go to the polls on May 29 throughout the national territory. It should be recalled that some of the irregularities that were reported in March, during the elections to Congress, are already in the hands of the Attorney General's Office and the Attorney General's Office.
The Registrar reported that in addition to changing the juries, it will ensure that at each table the members of the jury are distributed in a heterogeneous manner with different political affiliations.
In addition, priority will be given to candidates for presidential campaigns, political parties, public sector officials, employees of private companies and teachers of educational establishments who have been sworn to vote in the past elections.
“We are going to make a new draw and we will ensure that no table is homogeneous in the country, we are going to vary the application sectors, prioritizing electoral campaigns and political parties which will have all the guarantees for the formation of voting juries,” said the national civil status registrar, Alexander Vega.
According to the information provided by the entity on April 7, there will be more than 700,000 juries selected, and according to the provisions of the electoral calendar for these elections, from March 29 to April 29, the drawing of the voting juries is advanced.
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