Floods resulting from this year’s catastrophic rainy season may result in the suspension of the governor election in the Valle del Cauca department, President Juan Manuel Santos said Monday.
The president told W Radio his government is studying the judicial aspects of a possible suspension as “I think there will be no elections.”
Santos’ own Partido de la U had asked the president to suspend the elections. The opposition Green Party even asked to cancel the elections, because the floods are preventing people to vote and are making the logistics of an election impossible.
Voters in the south-western departments will have to elect a new governor after the suspension of Juan Carlos Abadia, who illegally had promoted the presidential candidacy of former Agriculture Minister Andres Felipe Arias.