European Union observers reject Petro’s fraud claims, calling Colombia’s vote ‘transparent’
The mission said 143 observers found no inconsistencies after reviewing tally sheets and ballots, rejecting claims that 800,000 voters were added.
- On Tuesday, the European Union's Electoral Observation Mission dismissed President Gustavo Petro's fraud claims regarding Sunday's election, describing the process as "transparent, orderly and fluid."
- Following Sunday's vote, far-right lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella led with 43.7% against Senator Ivan Cepeda's 40.9%, prompting Petro to allege "potential fraud" citing unverified claims that software manipulated vote tallies.
- On Monday, Cepeda softened his tone, stating his party's monitors found no irregularities sufficient to suggest fraud; Colombia's National Registrars Office confirmed 99.98% of voting tables reviewed with only 0.06% variation.
- The two candidates will proceed to a June 21 runoff election, though observers warn that Petro's unsubstantiated allegations could polarize the nation and stoke political violence ahead of the final vote.
- Election observers, including European Parliament delegation head Leire Pajín Iraola, hailed the process as a success, noting that under Colombian law judges verify results within two weeks, not the president.
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Bogotá. Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, insisted yesterday that in last Sunday’s elections, in which in the first round the ultra-right candidate defeated, there was fraud.
The National Registry of Colombia, entity in charge of the organization of the elections, corroborated this Tuesday, June 2, that the official count of the votes of the first round of the presidential elections, on Sunday, May 31, “registers a level of coincidence of 99.94%” regarding the initial count, culminating a few hours after the closure of ballot boxes in the Latin American nation. With the definitive vote in 99.98%, the entity detailed …
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European Union observers reject Petro’s fraud claims, calling Colombia’s vote 'transparent'
The European Union’s Electoral Observation Mission to Colombia has discarded President Gustavo’s Petro’s claims of fraud in Sunday’s presidential election.
The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, insists that there was a “possible fraud” in the presidential elections that took place this Sunday in the country, in which the ultra-right candidate Abelardo De La Espriella obtained the most...
El Periódico
"Ordained, transparent and fluid." Thus, the first turn of the presidential elections in Colombia was described by the European Union Electoral Observation Mission (EOM-EU). Its head and also vice-president of the European Parliament, Esteban González Pons, has, in fact, lost validity to President Gustavo Petro's denunciation of the provisional scrutiny that gives the far-right Abelardo de la Espriella an advantage of almost 700,000 votes over t…
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