After the election day ended, the Attorney General’s Office shared the balance of the presidential elections this Sundayin which the candidate of the Historical Pact Gustavo Petro and the candidate of the League of Anticorruption Leaders Rodolfo Hernández passed to the second round.
According to what was consolidated in the Unified Command Post (PMU), from where the authorities monitored the development of the elections, 50 people reported missing arrived at their polling stations in Casanare, Antioquia, Risaralda, Huila, Boyacá, Bolívar, Cundinamarca, Caldas, Caquetá, Valle del Cauca, Tolima, Cesar and Meta.
Likewise, 85 people were captured during the election dayfour of them for crimes associated with the elections, which were registered in Nariño, Cauca and Valle del Cauca for alleged personal falsehood and alleged electoral constraint.
“Of these captures, 81 correspond to court orders for different illicit conductin a multiplicity of departments in the country,” said Attorney General Francisco Barbosa, who clarified that the arrests were made effective thanks to the presence of the investigating entity and “once these people exercised their right to vote.”
The people, who will be made available to the guarantee control judges, were from Casanare, Arauca, Norte de Santander, Nariño, Cauca, Valle del Cauca, Antioquia, Cundinamarca, Santander, Meta, Tolima, Cesar, Magdalena, Sucre, La Guajira, Putumayo, Bolívar, Quindío and Bogotá.
In the bulletin of the final balance, the Prosecutor’s Office also indicated that the Immediate Reception Unit for Electoral Transparency (Uriel) attended 105 reports of possible electoral crimes such as voter corruption (22), vote fraud (22), voter constraint (21), vote trafficking (14) and alteration of electoral results (10).
In addition, in Caquetá, Cundinamarca, Valle del Cauca, Boyacá, Cesar, Tolima and Cauca, the investigative entity received twelve complaints for fraudulent vote and impersonation and opened criminal news for alleged intimidation against the coordinator of a political party in Caquetá, and the alleged theft of computers and elements in a political headquarters in Teusaquillo (Bogotá).
Finally, the PMU collected that 19 affectations to public order occurred in Huila, Putumayo, Cesar, Valle del Cauca, Caquetá, Meta, Atlántico, Quindío, Guaviare and Arauca. Among the facts, the murder a voting jury in the Nueva Colombia village, Vista Hermosa municipality (Meta), and the confrontation between the FARC and ELN dissidents in the Normandía village, in Puerto Rondón (Arauca).