Almost 20% of Colombia’s 1101 municipalities are currently at risk of violence and electoral fraud in the run up to the countries’ local elections on October 25, according to electoral observers.
Some 6,550 dead people are registered to vote in Colombia’s upcoming local elections, according to the National Registry.
Local elections in more than a quarter of Colombia municipalities are at risk because of the presence of illegal armed groups that have already killed two mayoral candidates in the past few months, the country’s ombudsman…
A mayoral candidate from the southwest of Colombia has been assassinated, local media reported Sunday. The victim is the second candidate for the October elections to lose his life over his political aspirations.
Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office arrested 12 people including a former mayor and three candidates for allegedly tampering with voter registration forms.
Bogota mayoral candidate Clara Lopez has denied knowledge of a $500M embezzlement scandal that took place while she was the chief of staff of the Colombian capital’s former mayor, the now jailed…
Colombia’s Inspector General’s Office has removed 729 candidates in October’s local elections because they were previously barred from holding public office, local media reported.
Campaigning has begun between six candidates aspiring to be elected Mayor of Medellin in the upcoming October elections.
A mayor candidate from west Colombia, accused of maintaining ties with local drug lords, was assassinated on Monday.