The party in power in Colombia, the right-wing Democratic Center, requested this Saturday “a recount of all the votes” of the parliamentary meetings held on March 13, in which the left achieved a historic breakthrough. Although the vote count is not over yet, the party questioned the “unusual” difference between the pre-count of votes on Sunday and the partial results that were released gradually during the week.
“The election of any candidate should not be declared until a total, public, vote-by-vote recount is made (…) Without clarity, the new Congress would be illegitimate and many citizens would not be able to recognize the electoral result,” warned the Democratic Center in a bulletin. In last weekend’s votes, President Iván Duque’s party went from 51 to 30 seats in the two chambers of the 296-seat legislature. The Duke himself announced that he had convened the Electoral Guarantees Table for next Tuesday.
For its part, the Historical Pact (left), led by former guerrilla fighter and presidential candidate Gustavo Petro, obtained an unprecedented bench of 41 parliamentarians, which according to preliminary scrutiny could be even higher. “It is absolutely suspicious that the Pact of Gustavo Petro, exclusively, would have complained about specific sites where a strangely high percentage of votes appeared that did not appear in the pre-count,” said the Democratic Center.
Former President Álvaro Uribe (2002-2010), Duque’s political godfather, questioned on Twitter “the overwhelming vote of Petrismo” in elections that “leave all mistrust.”
The E-14s are the forms that the voting jurors must fill out and are the basis for the pre-count. This gave the Historical Pact 2,302,847 votes in the Senate on Sunday, while the official results published on Friday by the Registrar, with 97% counted, awarded it 2,692,999, that is, 390,152 more votes, being the party with the largest difference between the two data. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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