Marxist Gustavo Petro, who said that the elections were rigged in Colombia, won the presidential race.

Gustavo Petro, the former Marxist mayor of Bogotá and former member of the terrorist guerrilla organization M19, declared victory in the Colombian presidential election on Sunday night, despite deceiving the entire initiative the day before and describing the highest Colombian representative in the election as “one”. liar.” .

The Colombian Election Observation Mission (MOE), which watched the vote, documented 148 “election violation” complaints as of 3:30 p.m. local time on Sunday. When the polls closed, this number rose to 393 reports.

According to Colombia’s El Tiempo newspaper, the alleged violations include “problems with the marking of ballot papers”, “voter buying”, threats to voters and propaganda of candidates in polling stations.

Time He added that at least two people were killed during the vote in Norte de Santander, in northeastern Colombia, and an unidentified attacker blew up a polling station.

He did not announce that he would oppose the outcome of the election on Sunday night, although Petro insisted that the elections would not be free and fair, and that voter Alexander Vega was a “liar” for claiming otherwise.

Rodolfo Hernandez, a former “foreign” businessman who was nearly defeated by Petro, also accepted the election results.

Peter’s left-wing political coalition, the Historical Pact, received 11.3 million votes, or just over 50 percent, according to the Emergency Ministry. Hernandez received about 47 percent of the vote, leaving a minority of blank protest votes rejecting both candidates. The Colombian system typically requires two presidential elections: an election for all candidates and a second round of elections between the two leading candidates if no candidate receives 50 percent or more of the vote. Petro won the first round of voting in May, but it wasn’t enough to avoid the runoff.

Peter, the former mayor of the capital, occupied the country’s major cities and coasts; Hernandez has already won the heart of the country that is home to many of those affected by more than half a century of Marxist guerrilla violence and drug trafficking.

Petro lost the 2018 presidential election to incumbent Ivan Duque for failing to receive votes in Caribbean coastal departments (the official term for state-level departments). Petro appears to have made significant progress on the east and north coasts of the country since 2018.

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TimeCiting the Colombian Ministry of Education, he said late Sunday that most of the electoral irregularities came from the Antioquia department, followed by Valle del Cauca, Atlántico, Risaralda and Bogotá. Of these, Peter conquered Valle del Cauca, Atlántico and his hometown of Bogotá. Antioquia’s regional capital, Medellin, is a conservative stronghold that was the birthplace of former President Alvaro Uribe’s longstanding conservative movement after one of the worst drug-related terror waves in the country in the 1980s and 1990s.

Time He noted that during the elections west of Cauca, an election witness from the “Historical Petra Pact” was “killed” and at least one bomb explosion occurred. Another “human rights activist” identified by Peter’s supporters was also killed.

The most common election “violation” reported, the newspaper said, turned out to be invalid, with ballots cast by voters appearing on them before the voter had a chance to mark the candidate’s ballot box. All four major cities, including Bogota and Medellin, reported evidence of “money, food shopping and mobilizing people to the polls” illegal.

right wing magazine to the sky He pointed out that most of the violations documented in Antakya took place in areas where terrorist fighters are known to operate.

Petro predicted election fraud earlier on Thursday.

“Register [Vega] lies,” Petro said in an interview with Colombian radio Caracol that day, referring to Alexandre Vega, the country’s top electoral adviser. “He says we have warranties, and that’s not true. He told me they allow technical audits, but that’s about 20 million lines of algorithm and one line can get 100 votes or less. It did.”

Petro said he was cheated on despite winning the first presidential election in May.

“We have no guarantee of telling people this software is reliable,” Petro insisted. “We found an error in table 500 [voting stations] We lost by 500 votes and Rodolfo Hernandez won by 500 – it’s not the judge’s fault, because it’s a problem with the algorithm. ”

“HE [Petro] and all candidates received all guarantees, including information auditors for the software, the availability of election witnesses, and international observation missions,” he said. “Dr. Gustavo Petro must respect and accept the results, as he does in every election he attends. ”

Peter seems to be listening to this advice because the election results are in his favour.

The elected president delivered a 40-minute speech Sunday night, welcoming political opponents for dialogue and reconciliation, while the president – after years of burning cities and unrest – speaks to his own constituency – renounces “revenge” and hatred. . ” ”

“The election shows that the two Colombians are close to each other in the number of votes. “We want Colombia to be one Colombia, not two, despite its diversity,” he said. “And we need love for it to be a united Colombia with this enormous diversity of colours.”

“More than 10 million votes of Rodolfo Hernandez are welcome in this government,” Petro said. said.

“Maybe we don’t understand each other most of the time, but there will be no more political persecution, no prosecution from this government in power, only respect and dialogue,” said Petro.