Álvaro Uribe to Gustavo Petro: “Win the elections, don't try to steal them”

Former President Álvaro Uribe Vélez, today under investigation for two serious crimes, has been one of the main applicants for a vote count following the election results legislative elections of this year and has not ceased to vehemently question the presidential candidate, Gustavo Petro, on that issue.

In fact, on the morning of Tuesday, March 22, the former senator got up early to launch an acid comment on the leader of the Historical Pact and, directly, asked him to stop “stealing” the elections and allow the National Civil Status Registry, led by Alexander Vega, to carry out a new count of the votes.

This, after Petro announced that he will not attend other presidential debates “until the transparency of the vote is guaranteed”; comments that did not like the natural head of the Democratic Center at all, who left vehement objections such as:

In his triune, which in a few minutes reached more than 2,000 likes, Uribe threw other questions to those who today point the intention to vote for the presidential elections in May. “What is Mr. Petro up to? Let 500 thousand votes appear, overwhelming majority in your favor and let's ask nothing. That thousands of voters demand that their votes do not appear and there is no response,” added the former president.

In fact, before concluding his controversial statement, the former head of state referred to the announcement by Registrar Alexander Vega, to inform the Electoral Guarantees Bureau of the new count and, as a challenge, told the presidential candidate: “Dr. Petro does not weigh down the good payer's garments.”

And he didn't stay there. In other publications, the one currently under investigation by the Colombian justice system for procedural fraud and witness manipulation, referred to how his judicial problems affected the election of Uribistas congressmen and again defended a recount of the votes handed out by Colombians on March 13.

“How so with 500,000 votes that did not appear in the initial count we cannot ask for a recount. It is one thing to recognize that the party has fallen back, to accept the impact on my reputation, to recognize what the government has lacked and another thing is to ask for a recount for the sake of democracy,” said Uribe Vélez.

For now, it is known that it will be the National Electoral Council (CNE) that will define whether the vote count is repeated to supposedly guarantee transparency in the elections eight days ago that allowed the new congressmen to be elected.

Registrar Vega indicated that he made the decision “in order to arrive at the electoral truth,” taking into account the “countless inconsistencies of the E-14 forms to the Senate.” In his statement to the media, the official assured that the irregularities arose due to failures in the completion of the forms in which electoral judges must record the number of votes cast at the ballot box by each of the registered candidates or parties.

It should be recalled that the Colombian Congress is bicameral, composed of the Senate of the Republic and the House of Representatives. As explained by the official, the inconsistencies have occurred in the first, but not in the second.

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