Presidential candidates for Colombia’s left leaning parties the Democratic Pole (Democratic Pole – PDA) and the Patriotic Union (Union Patriotica – UP), are reportedly set to become running mates in…
Colombia’s Sunday congressional elections saw an unprecedented amount of voter fraud and vote buying, though violent pressure on voters from armed illegal groups largely abated, according to electoral observers.
Colombia’s Deputy Prosecutor has supported calls for an election recount after strident petitions from Uribe’s Democratic Centre party.
The Colombian President has launched his re-election bid and his new campaign slogan amid cheering crowds at a launch Wednesday afternoon.
Colombia’s Electoral Registry, responsible for running the nation’s elections, dismissed former President Alvaro Uribe’s party’s claim that hundreds of thousands of votes were not awarded to him during Sunday’s congressional…
Nearly 8,000 voting stations during last Sunday’s congressional elections failed to report votes for former President Alvaro Uribe’s political party, according to a party-led investigation released Wedenesday.
Elections in Colombia are won with checkbooks, not policies, according to Aida Avella, the Patriotic Union’s (Union Patriotica — UP) candidate for president.
Former president Alvaro Uribe said on Tuesday that Colombia’s incoming Congress to which he was elected on Sunday is “illegitimate,” claiming the election were marred by fraud.
US and Latin American electoral watchdogs recommended on Monday that Colombia take a closer look at the phenomenon of voting abstention during election periods.