The National Civil Status, Hernán Penagos, spoke of the measures for the 2026 elections.
He National Civil Status RegistrarHernán Penagos, said that Colombia is taking all the necessary measures to guarantee full electoral processes and transparent, preventing them from presenting irregularities As those that occurred in countries such as Venezuelaamong the Main actions highlighted the implementation of facial and fingerprint in more than 60 thousand voting tableswith the aim of preventing impersonations and strengthening the identification of voters.
“We are going to have the next year facial biometry to identify the citizenship through the face and set aside any questions of impersonation or false identity”, Said the national registrar.
He also announced that all Senate E-14 minutes, Chamber and Presidency will be published onlineso that citizens can directly verify the results of each table with official bulletins.
“There is a topic that is decisive, it was even what It happened in the neighboring country of Venezuelawe will publish all the electoral minutes of each of the Colombia tableswhat is known as E-14, 760 thousand in the case of Senate of the Republic and Chamber of Representatives and 370 thousand in the case of Presidency of the RepublicAs the incoming year the Registry is announcing and spreading the results in the bulletins, citizens can verify those results, ”Penagos said.
To this will be added the presence of International Observation Missionsamong them the European Union, OASin addition to audits to technological and information systems.
The registrar said that Congress elections and the first presidential return They will have a approximate cost of 2.1 billion pesoswhile a eventual second round will require 900 billion.
Source: Integrated information system
