The alleged interventions in politics and the coercion of the voter are some of the facts reported by the entity with court at 12:30 this Sunday, the 29th of may
Attorney General Margarita Cabello delivered an initial assessment of the irregularities that occurred during the first presidential round in Colombia. Photo: Attorney
After exercising her right to vote in the Plaza de Bolívar, in the center of Bogotá, the Attorney General of the Nation, Margarita Cabello, presented a report on the irregularities that occurred during the presidential elections in Colombia with a cutoff at 12:30 m.
In dialogue with the media, the official assured that the initial report is of “tranquility”, highlighting the work of the authorities. “I come from the Unified Command Post (PMU)that the Attorney General’s Office has, in which we work with all the institutions and international organizations. (…) We had, since March 13, the preventive mission of being on the watchful lake, as the registrar says, so that the alleged errors that occurred on the day of Congress are not repeat now.”
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Followed by this, Cabello specified that, although “everything is working properly”, the entity has received 35 complaintsfrom Bogotá, Casanare, Antioquia, Córdoba, La Guajira, Risaralda, Valle del Cauca, Atlántico, Boyacá, Caldas, Magdalena, Nariño, Norte de Santander, Risaralda, Santander, Sucre and from the United States”. Most of these reports are due to alleged irregularitiesrelated tointervention in politics, voter coercion and problems exercising the right to vote.
“Our attorneys, who are more than 9,000 officials of the Public Ministry, defenders and representatives are in all regions of the country collaborating, helping, handling complaints and actively participating so that the electoral process moves with transparency and tranquility”, added the attorney.
Finally, Cabello invited Colombians to take to the streets to vote, hopefully, “massively, calm and transparent”.}
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Another issue addressed by the attorney was the investigationcarried out against the registrar national Alexander Vega for the irregularities that occurred in the legislative elections and the inter-party consultations: “We are in the probationary period, verifying, they are technical tests that do not they can be delivered from one day to the next, but we are in that process to determine if they were only alleged irregularities that may occur, or if some fraud occurred at the time.”
Regarding the investigations, this On Sunday, the Attorney General Francisco Barbosa stated that he will call Vega so that he “explains to us what are the material elements of evidence that he has and that his office has to determine the fraudulent nature of the those performances.”
The first reports from the Attorney General’s Office during election day:
The CTI of the Attorney General’s Office revealed that 17 arrests, by court order, during the first five hours of the elections in the country. LGuajira, Antioquia, San Andrés Nariño, Tolima, Magdalena, Arauca, Cesar and Bolívar are the departments where the operations were carried out.
< p class=”paragraph”>The arrests made by the authorities are related to people wanted for crimes such as: domestic violence, use of a false document, violent sexual act; manufacture, trafficking and possession of firearms or ammunition; violent carnal access, attempted homicide, among others.
In Bogotá, for example, the alleged theft of three computers and other elements at the headquarters of a political party, in the town of Teusaquillo. Likewise, in Pasto, Nariño, a man was captured in flagrante delicto for presenting afalse certificateaccrediting him as an electoral witness.
“Through of the Immediate Reception Unit for Electoral Transparency (URIEL), 27 reports of possible electoral crimes have been received, such as: constraint on the voter, corruption of the voter, vote trafficking, disturbance of the democratic contest, fraudulent vote, slander and bribery,” the Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement.