A controversial House representative on the congressional committee charged with investigating ex-President Alvaro Uribe is resigning, to be replaced by a representative who was elected amidst accusations of electoral fraud, according to local media reports.
The Colombian government on Thursday said to be open to exploring the possibility of instituting obligatory voting in elections that have suffered abysmal turnouts.
In an official recount of ballots mandated by the Supreme Judiciary Council in Bogota, 253 of 2,012 polling stations were not counted, despite the order which states that all ballots should…
Colombia’s largest rebel group, the FARC, have rejected accusations by former president and senator-elect Alvaro Uribe that they forced voters re-elect the incumbent president “with a gun to the neck.”
Election officials in Colombia have been issued a court order to recount 14% of the vote from the March 9 congressional elections, according to local media.
Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos has asked that people ignore former president Alvaro Uribe’s accusation of electoral fraud in Sunday’s presidential elections.
Colombian authorities have received nearly 5,000 reports of electoral regulation violations since March’s congressional elections, according to the Agency for Electoral Transparency (URIEL).
Colombia’s Electoral Observation Mission (MOE) has so far received a total of 59 complaints of voting irregularities from citizens taking part in the country’s presidential elections, according to a report released by…
The Organization of American States (OAS) has initiated its election monitoring campaign in various Colombian cities and has reported no irregularities in the lead up to Sunday’s presidential elections.