The voting abroad in the second round of the elections Colombian presidential elections began this Sunday with the opening of the post installed in the Consulate in New Zealandwhere due to the time difference it is already Monday, the Foreign Ministry reported.
A total of 972,764 Colombians registered abroad are entitled to choose president between the leftist Gustavo Petro and the independent populist Rodolfo Hernández.
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The process abroad begins a week before, on Monday the 13th by local time, and It ends on June 19, the day of the elections in Colombia.
at the consulate in Auckland voting opened at 0800 local time on Monday (20:00 GMT on Sunday or 15:00 Colombian time), and will be followed by the consulates in Canberra and Sydney (Australia).
According to the National Registry, the entity that organizes the elections, in In New Zealand, 1,397 Colombians are registered to vote and in Australia there are 14,988.
VOTING AT THE BORDER WITH VENEZUELA
The National Registry Office also set up six voting stations in which You will be able to pay starting tomorrow in municipalities bordering Venezuela that will serve citizens residing in that country.
The president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, broke diplomatic relations with Colombia on February 23, 2019 and for that reason, Colombians residing in the Caribbean country have to travel to the border posts to pay.
The Registry indicated that in the consulates in Venezuela 184,421 Colombians are registered, for whom border voting stations were set up in Cúcuta and Villa del Rosario (Norte de Santander), Arauca (Arauca), Maicao (La Guajira) and Inírida (Guainía), “in order to guarantee the right to vote and political participation” of these citizens.
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The countries where there is more potential for Colombian voters are the United States, with 324,858; Venezuela (184,421), Spain (161,910), Canada (43,622) and Ecuador (35,543), according to official data.
The Registrar also noted that “Unlike the first round, this time the Consulate General of Colombia in Shanghai (China) will have the voting station enabled, in response to the recent measures adopted by the local authorities in that city “which was under strict confinement for more than two months due to the covid-19 pandemic.
