Faced with criticism of his report on the 2021 elections, Congressman Jorge Montoya, of Popular Renovation, alleges that he never spoke of electoral fraud and that neither did anyone from his political group.
The report, which Montoya presided over to investigate the elections, was rejected by the plenary session of Congress last Wednesday: 42 parliamentarians voted in favor, 55 against and 13 abstained. Popular Force requested reconsideration to vote again. At the close of this note, this request was not resolved in plenary.
Montoya’s report concludes not that there was “fraud at the table,” as argued by the group of right-wing politicians who sought to reverse the electoral results, but that regulations were manipulated to allow Pedro Castillo’s candidacy.
Questioned for not proving “table fraud”, he denied having spoken before that. “I have never spoken of a fraud of this nature, I have spoken that there have been irregularities that had to be discovered,” he said on the radio station Exitosa.
“Not my party, my bench party has not said it, at any time,” he added.
In June 2021, Montoya signed a statement that expresses “concern about the complaints through which flagrant alterations of the due process of preparing minutes, collection, typing and counting have been spread, which have partially followed an administrative process that by the magnitude of cases has not been carried out diligently and completely, which has been producing a majority citizen perception of a process that is not very transparent, irregular and liable to fraud.”
In addition, he went to the OAS with other politicians to ask for an audit of the elections. Then he said that the second round should be done again. Thus, several times he joined the “table fraud” thesis, not what he concludes today. ❖
The key
Another vote. At the close of this note, some sources warned of the intention to vote on the reconsideration of the vote that archived the report. Although it seemed very difficult to approve this document, nothing had been said yet.
