The National Registry, the National Electoral Council and the national government met with the different international missions and observations that will accompany the presidential elections next Sunday
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The Electoral Observation Mission (EOM) of the Organization of American States (OAS) for the presidential elections on May 29 in Colombia began arriving in the country last Monday. The group is made up of 87 international specialists and observers.
This Thursday, May 26, the National Registry, the National Electoral Council (CNE) and the national government, headed by the Ministry of the Interior, They installed the International Observation Mission, which is made up of electoral observation missions and organizations from different countries that will be monitoring the presidential elections this Sunday, May 29.
The registrar Alexander Vega was the official who led this installation and explained that all the guarantees are already in place for the elections to take place.He also had time to highlight the work of the national government regarding the accompaniment and the steps taken, “with the intention of demonstrating the transparency of the elections.”
During this installation, Vega recalled the different measures that will be implemented compared to the legislative elections on March 13 to ensure that the same failures in the vote count do not occur. Settings include the raffle of voting jurors, changes in the E-14 form, training for jurors and extension of the term for the application of electoral witnesses, among others.
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The representatives of the Electoral Observation Mission (EOM) of the Organization of American States (OAS) began to arrive in the country last Monday, May 23. The group is made up of 87 international specialists and observers.The head of the mission will be the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Paraguay Eladio Loizaga, who also led the procession in the legislative elections.
This work team will have a wide territorial deployment in different departments from the country. Likewise, it will monitor key aspects of the process, such as electoral organization and voting abroad, electoral technology, electoral justice, campaigns and freedom of expression, and electoral violence.
The first task carried out by the international delegates was to observe the mock vote counts and the training of voting table jurors by the National Registry of Civil Status. Over the next few days, the members of the EOM will meet with electoral and government authorities, political leaders, and representatives of civil society and the accredited diplomatic community in Colombia, which will allow them to make a comprehensive assessment of the process.
After the elections, the mission will present a preliminary report with its observations and recommendations in order to contribute to the strengthening of the electoral processes in Colombia. This is the 21st time that the OAS has deployed a mission to observe electoral processes in the country.
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During the meeting, the Minister of the Interior, Daniel Palacios, assured that the The national government has been guaranteeing the transparency and security of the electoral process since the last elections to the Congress of the Republic and they will do the same for the presidential ones. The minister also highlighted the participation of the international observers, assuring that the presence of the missions is the best guarantee of the transparency and security of the presidential elections.
In front of the candidates in contention, Palacios assured that everyone has been guaranteed their safety: “Both the presidential campaign of Gustavo Petro, as well as that of Federico Gutiérrez, Sergio Fajardo, Rodolfo Hernández, John Milton Restrepo and Enrique Gómez, everyone has protection measures from the Colombian state, some more robust than others, depending on their security situation and their risk situation,” Palacios said.