The Minister of the Interior Daniel Palacios (l) and the National Registrar of Civil Status, Alexander Vega (r) hold a meeting with the members of the Electoral Guarantees Table, in Bogotá (Colombia). Carlos Ortega (EFE)
Colombia will not recount the votes of the Senate.
The decision deflates a controversy that has not stopped growing since the elections were held on Sunday the 13th, and that has called into question all Colombian institutions.
The president, Iván Duque, and the national registrar publicly requested a recount of the votes, something unprecedented in the country's history and that is not contemplated by the electoral law.
The public requests of both fed the denunciations of fraud that, from the right and the left, followed the electoral day.
The National Electoral Commission met this Tuesday to make a decision, but the registrar retracted at the last minute and announced that he will not officially present the request for a new count.
“It is not possible to continue talking about electoral fraud in Colombia.
We are going to improve the pre-count and the transmission of information”, assured the national registrar, Alexander Vega Rocha.
The decision settles the possibility of reopening the bags where the votes are kept, but leaves a feeling of suspicion in public opinion fed from the high powers of the State.
The Colombian elections have not been spared from the discrediting process that other democracies such as the United States experienced during the last White House elections.
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