“The idea is that candidates campaign not through surveys, but through proposals and visiting the national territory.”
The new law that was sanctioned by President Gustavo Petro continues to be controversial and regulates the completion of the surveys In electoral times.
The new standard prohibits the publication of vote intention survey until November, that is, three months before registrations for presidential elections.
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Although the issue has generated rejection in the pollsing firms, The national government came out in defense of the norm.Interior Minister Armando Benedetti, He affirmed that the law does not intend to impose a gag in electoral times.
“It’s no gagit is the other way around, it is for them not to prefabricate candidates and seek to guide certain candidates. The idea is that candidates campaign not through surveys, but through proposals and visiting the national territory, ”he said.
Benedetti clarified that this survey law is authored by several congressmen and not of the national government And he highlighted some points that seek to make the realization of these vote intention more transparent.
“The law of surveys, which is not from the Government, is from the Congress of the Republic, multi -party, What it is about is to seek that these companies are registered in the National Electoral Council, that there is a traceability of who was surveyed, that they also have a time when it can be published or not to publish, because currently those companies do is that they have their own owner and their own candidate, ”he said.
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The Interior Minister said that on many occasions, especially in the middle of the electoral time, surveys do not reflect the reality that is lived in the territories. “You go to the regions or the municipalities with less population and the disorder is total,” he said.
The electoral observation mission (MOE) at the time warned that a judicious review of this new law would make a judicious review, because in principle it could restrict the right to information.
Source: Integrated information system
