Prosecutor's Office requests full access to information on lottery and assignment of voting juries

This Thursday, April 21, the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation demanded logistical and financial guarantees for the presidential campaigns that will be held in the first presidential round, which will take place on May 29, in order to provide transparency in the process.

This was announced by the Attorney General, Margarita Cabello, after the working table was held between the Public Prosecutor's Office with the representatives of the eight campaigns they will face at the polls, requests that were shared with the National Electoral Council (CNE), the National Registry of Civil Status and the Ministry of Finance.

“We analyzed the requests and conclusions that came out of the work carried out with the eight campaigns, and immediately requested information from the Electoral Organization regarding logistics, financing, technological aid and other aspects of the electoral contest, concerning equality in electoral debates. and the use of opinion spaces”, the procurator said in the context of the National Commission for the Coordination and Monitoring of Electoral Processes.

The supervisory body also requested the national registrar, Alexander Vega, and the CNE judges, full access to information on drawing lots and assignment of voting juries and delegates of the Council for general counting, as well as verification of training and the location and organization of voting stations, due to the multiple irregularities that arose in the legislative elections.

Likewise, it demanded that political organizations be able to verify the capacity and functionality of the software that will be used in the electoral process, as well as to conduct voting simulations with real documents, optimize the procedure for accrediting electoral witnesses and agree with the campaigns to develop a report on inconsistencies in the pre-counting of votes.

“We are very attentive. In the disciplinary part, which will take its natural course following the order I have given that there should be investigations as a matter of priority; and the preventive part, in which we are monitoring the elections, we will do what is necessary to make the electoral process as efficient, transparent and reassuring for Colombian society, guaranteeing the validity of democracy and the balanced, objective and fully monitored election day by us,” said Prosecutor Margarita Cabello.

Finally, the entity asked the CNE for speed in the efforts related to campaign finance and asked the Ministry of Finance for information on the procedures for the recognition and allocation of advances for financing the political movements and parties that registered candidatures and which count with the certificate of the National Funding Fund.

These demands of the Office of the Procurator are requested two months after the legislative elections were held in the country, in which countless irregularities were evidenced that were denounced by different political parties and which led to the possibility of requesting a recount of votes and the removal of the national registrar, Alexander Vega, which is still ongoing.

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