Authorities announced a report with the possible effects on the elections, by armed groups.
The Ombudsman forHe lled that 24% of the municipalities in the southwestern region of Colombia require immediate actions to avoid affectations to the development of next year’s legislative and presidential elections.
Iris Marín, head of the entity, presented Lto Employment Electoral Alert 013-2025, in which a study on the risk presented in different parts of the country is done regarding the celebration of the elections.
In the case of Valle del Cauca, the report indicated that municipalities such as Buenaventura, Jamundí, Tuluá and San Pedro are on alert.
“Each region of the country demands a different response, there is no unique recipe: lA must be differentiated, timely and proportional“The official said in her speech.
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Marín stressed that “this is lto more critical subregion of the seven subregions analyzed And we find that it has the largest number of municipalities that require immediate action. ”
While in locations such as Cali, Candelaria, Pradera, Florida, Palmira, Dagua, Bolívar, El Dovio and Carthage They are classified as municipalities where urgent action is needed by the State to avoid affectations in the realization of the 2026 elections.
In the document of Early electoral alert The municipalities of Yumbo, La Cumbre, Calima – Darién and the Eagle as municipalities where a priority action is necessary by the authorities.
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Similarly, reference is made to the presence of armed actors in various parts of the department of Valle del Cauca, as is the case of the coast.
“Regarding the actions of organized crime groups, in addition to ‘Los Shotas’ and ‘Spartans’ by Buenaventura, It is identified that groups such as ‘Los Flacos’, ‘The Immaculate’ and ‘New Generation’ Rastrojos, They could generate pressures or violence against candidacies and voters In the electoral processes of 2025 and 2026, “says the report shared by the Ombudsman.
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According to the entity, Several of these groups have been pointed out to have committed threats against public servants, in addition to exercising pressures in past elections, as is the case with those that occurred in 2023.
Some of these, in the center of the Valley, were indicated for having committed threats against public servants or exercise different types of pressure after the local elections of 2023.
“Within the framework of the monitoring carried out in 2025, a direct action was recorded against the electoral process. On August 11, a social and environmental leader and candidate for the District Council of Youth of Cali For the common party, he was the victim of an attack while sharing with other young people linked to the environmental process he leads. As a result of the attack, the youth leadership suffered a wound in one of its lower limbs, “says the Ombudsman’s report.
Source: Integrated information system
