Historical Pact would obtain three more seats after counting votes

This Friday, March 18, the National Registry delivered the results of the legislative elections last Sunday after the vote count. The entity was criticized after the NGO Electoral Observation Mission (MOE) denounced certain counting irregularitiesspecifically in the votes of the left.

(Read: What happens with complaints about possible irregularities in the pre-count of votes?).

For now, with 97% of the count completed, the Historic Pact would add a total of 2,692,999 votes for the Senate on its closed list. Namely, 390 thousand additional votes those who had registered on election Sunday.

With these results, the Historical Pact could be winning three additional seats for a total of 19 seats in the upper house. Which would imply, in turn, that other parties would lose the seats that they thought they had obtained in a first count.

WHO WOULD LOSE SEATS?

Among them, the Conservative Party, which would be left with 15 seats when initially 16 possible seats in the Senate corresponded to him. In this case, the congresswoman who would lose her position would be Esperanza Andrade, from the department of Huila.

Along with it, the Democratic Center he would also lose one seat, completing 13 seats in the Senate. The candidate María Angélica Guerra would be the person who loses her seat in Congress.

Finally, there is the Green Alliance Coalition and Esperanza Center, which initially had 14 possible seats in the upper house, would lose one and would be left with 13 seats. In this alliance, Fredy Muñoz, who was trying to go from the Chamber to the Senate, would lose his seat.

On the other hand, Cambio Radical, the party of ‘La U’ and the coalition of the Mira party and Colombia Justa Libres, would maintain the seats that had been attributed in the pre-count.

It should be noted that this is a projection, based on preliminary results, with the 97% of the count. Until 100% of the count is completed, the official conformation of the Congress will not be definitively known.

(What’s more: Abstention on election day remained above 50%).

“These are the results of the scrutinizing commissions at the municipal level. We are close to 97% of official scrutiny for the Senate of the Republic. Although it is true that this is the official result, there is still 3% left to finish scrutinizing the Senate. This scrutiny now goes up to the National Electoral Council and that is susceptible to possible modifications according to the claims presented by the political parties and their proxies.“, said the registrar Alexander Vega this Friday.

COMPLAINTS

The director of the MOE, Alejandra Barrios, assured in a press conference that there was “clearly atypical behavior of the number of polling stations that did not receive votes from the Historical Pact“, since it has a much higher percentage of tables where it did not receive a single vote than the other six parties or coalitions that also obtained parliamentary representation.

(Keep reading: Institutions would limit radical changes after elections: Moody’s).

The NGO specified that there were many errors in the voting records recorded by the juries. “We are facing human errors of the voting juries. The juries were trained. A few years ago when we proposed the electoral reform it was to correct the errors that are currently being seen,” said the National Registrar.

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