A total of 12,263 voting stations are enabled in the different departments of the national territory, find out how the day goes in the main cities of the country

Photo: Secretary of Government

There is less than an hour to go until the end of the electoral day that will define who will be the next president and vice president of Colombia or, at least, who will contest the second presidential round on June 19. Of the almost 40 million citizens qualified to vote, it is expected that at least half will cast their vote today.

President Duque, Vice President Marta Lucía Ramírez, the Mayor of Bogotá Claudia López, among other political figures, have cast their vote in the capital.A curious situation arose with the candidate of the Historical Pact, Gustavo Petro, who went to vote at the post located in the Marco Antonio Carreño Silva Educational Institution, but had to delay his electoral exercise for almost 20 minutes because he had forgotten his document. of identity.

Regarding the largest voting point in the city, Corferias, 12,320 citizens have voted out of nearly four hundred thousand registered. An inconvenience that was registered at the point is that several citizens denounced not being able to vote there, this because they were not registered there.

In Medellín, the candidates Presidential candidates Sergio Fajardo and Federico Gutiérrez voted during the morning, although the latest was registered by the Team for Colombia candidate at 11:54 a.m. m.

Other peculiarities of the election day were the weather conditions, specifically in Sucre, where they had to vote ‘with water up to their necks’ due to the floods.

2:40 p. m.

Authorities locate 120 kilograms of R1 explosives in Meta and two 40-pound cylinders loaded with explosives and shrapnel. According to statements by the military, the artifacts were installed by the Residual Organized Armed Group, which intended to carry out terrorist actions against the security forces and the civilian population.

2:20 p. m.

There are complications in the mobility of the north of Bogotá, according to testimonies of pedestrians, a vehicular chaos is registered on the North highway, for which alternate routes are recommended for people who have not yet voted and have their positions registered in that area of ​​the city. city.

1:45 p.m. m

The suspended mayor of Medellín was booed when he arrived at the polling station in the Tricentenario neighborhood.

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The Ministry of the Interior reports 584 complaints of alleged electoral irregularities.

1:10 p. m.

An explosive device is detonated almost 300 meters from a polling station in Sardinata, Caquetá.

12:57 m.

The Secretary of Government of Bogotá, Felipe Jiménez, delivered a report on election day in the capital. According to Jiménez, throughout the district’s journeys, there has been a large influx of voters at the different voting points.

On the other hand, the District Institute for Risk Management and Climate Change (Idiger) reported rains in the towns of Suba, Fontibón, Engativá and Santa Fe.

12:55 m.

The director of the National Police, General Jorge Vargas, reported that 155 subpoenas have been imposed for violating the dry law.< /p>

12:43 m.

Before alleged cases of purchase of votes, the Attorney General’s Office reported that it awaits the formalization of the complaints to act under due process.

12:36 p. m.

General Juan Carlos León, commander of the Cali Police, reported calm on election day and reported on the capture of two people at the time of appearing at the voting tables.

12:25 p. m.

In the company of former foreign minister María Angela Holguín, presidential candidate Sergio Fajardo attended your polling station.

11:55 a.m. m.

At the Konrad Lorenz University Foundation, the mayor of Bogotá, Claudia López, exercised her right to vote.

11 a. m.

Caldas authorities report normality in the different polling stations. The department has a potential voter of 811,180 people and Manizales, the capital, has 339,696 people registered to vote in 300 polling stations. According to the Special Delegate Registrar, seven posts with more than 45 tables were relocated to guarantee the right to vote. More than 2,100 men from the Army and National Police guard the security of the department during election day.

10:30 a.m. m.

The mayor of Santa Marta, Virna Johnson Salcedo, exercised her right to vote at the Liceo Samario in Boston, and explained that so far voting has been completely normal in the city, both in rural and urban areas.

10 a. m.

The Ombudsman’s Office reported that, “Our Santander Regional Office accompanies the Colombian Elections in Bucaramanga. In Santander, delays are reported in the arrival of electoral material due to the rains in García Rovira, an area that is cut off from Bucaramanga and Santa Helena del Opón. Alternate routes are used.”

9:45 a.m. m.

The candidate Gustavo Petro arrived at his polling station located in the Marco Antonio Carreño Silva Educational Institution, and due to an oversight in his documents, he was delayed for some minutes your vote.

9:30 a.m. m.

Three explosions were reported one in the village of Sardinata in the municipality of Cartagena del Chairá Caquetá, according to Defense Minister Diego Molano, occurred away from the polling station and had the sole intention of attacking the military forces, fortunately this event did not leave anyone injured. The other two attacks occurred in La Macarena Meta and Vereda La Paz, El Retorno in Guaviare. Here there were wounded.

9 a. m.

The polling stations located in Miami and Spain where 170,000 Colombians were eligible to vote were closed.

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President Iván Duque votes at table 1 installed in the Congress of the Republic, the president pointed out when voting “Today all Colombians go to the polls to participate in these elections… We have one of the strongest democracies in the hemisphere, because every 4 years we relinquish power to the destiny marked by Colombians at the polls.”.

The president of Colombia, Iván Duque, opened the electoral day at 8:00 a.m. the morning of this Sunday, May 29. Photo: Presidency of the Republic

8:15 a.m. m.

Presidential candidates Sergio Fajardo and Rodolfo Hernández came out to vote. The representative of the Coalition of Hope practiced his electoral right at the Inem José Félix de Restrepo, in the city of Medellín. While the engineer who is competing for the Anti-Corruption Governors League did so at the Colegio de Santander in Bucaramanga.

8 a. m.

The voting tables were opened in the different parts of the national territory, the tables will be enabled until four in the afternoon. One of the points with the greatest number of people since the tables opened was the Corferias stand.

7:40 a.m. m.

From the Unified Command Post, the mayor of the capital, Claudia López, indicated the measures to guarantee the security of electoral day in Bogotá.

7 a. m.

One ​​of the first events recorded on election day today, Sunday, May 29, was the complaint made by the presidential campaign of candidate Sergio Fajardo, according to At dawn on Saturday the 28th, through a fence, criminals allegedly stole equipment from the place, one of the members of the Centro Esperanza Coalition, Enrique Robledo, mentioned: “Here at the national headquarters of the Dignity Party, a homeless person, that is already certified, taking advantage of a weakness in the headquarters, a couple of computers were stolen, but everything indicates that they do not go beyond that and the Police and the Mayor’s Office are already investigating”, reported the senator.

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