A pamphlet circulating in the northeast of Colombia and signed by neo-paramilitary group “Los Urabeños” urged citizens to vote for “the candidate for peace,” implying incumbent President Juan Manuel Santos,…
Colombia’s Electoral Observation Mission (MOE) said Sunday it has received 285 complaints of voting irregularities in the country’s presidential elections.
Colombia’s abstention rate has skyrocketed during the 2014 presidential elections with 60% of the voting age population not casting their vote compared to 51% in 2010, according to electoral authorities.
With over 97% of the vote counted, either Oscar Ivan Zuluaga, candidate of former President Alvaro Uribe’s Democratic Center (Centro Democratico – CD) party, or incumbent President Juan Manuel Santos…
At the close of polls, Colombia’s presidential elections have reportedly taken place without any significant disturbances or guerrilla attacks, according to the government.
The preliminary election results of Colombia’s 2014 presidential election provided a ticket to the second-round run-off to incumbent President Juan Manuel Santos and his hard-line rival Oscar Ivan Zuluaga.
Investigators from the Prosecutor General’s Office have arrested an ex-congressman at a voting booth in the central Colombian state of Santander over alleged paramilitary ties.
An attempt to hack into the official government website responsible for formally counting and reporting Colombia’s election results was discovered as voting began on Sunday.
The population of Colombians living in Fundacion, in the northern state of Magdalena, have abstained from voting in Sunday’s presidential election in large numbers after a local bus exploded last…