After obtaining the full names of all persons seeking public office from the Registrar’s OfficeIn the regional elections in October, the Office of the Chief Public Prosecutor prepared the list of those who were disqualified from the said competition.
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Known document by EL TIEMPOr, it contains the names of 676 candidates from various parts of the country who were not eligible to be elected at the ballot box due to the sanctions imposed on them.S.
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The most prominent person on the list is Oneida Pinto, the former governor of La Guajira, who has been prosecuted for various irregularities, and who is once again trying to become the mayor of his hometown of Albania. Various disciplinary, financial and criminal investigations were brought against him, which cost him several days in prison.
He even has a new prep hearing in a court in Bogota this Thursday for the case against him for crimes such as corruption and improper performance of contracts. However, the process did not prevent him from participating in politics with the mayoral campaign, like the other candidates indicated by the Attorney General’s Office..
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In this regard, attorney Margarita Cabello said last week: “The Registry has already sent us information on the full names of all registered candidates, and it is up to us to examine which of these 1.3 million candidates is disabled. We did? We have received and passed all this data, and there are 676 candidates on our sanction list who have an inscription or sanction.”.
In general, three governorship candidates were disqualified within the filter applied by the control unit andn Vaupés, Vichada and Choco; 560 candidates for council; to 19 meetings; 14 to mayors, 80 to local government boards. (I can see the full list from the file below 🙂
Those who are barred from managing the above-mentioned departments Javier Miguel Vargas, who aspires to Vaupés with the support of Fuerza Ciudadana and although the case in which he could not compete is not specified in the document, he appears in the Attorney General’s records with verbal and offensive statements about another person during his time as mayor of Mitú.
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Another Henry Silva Meche, who wants to be the governor of Vichada on behalf of the Democratic Party of Colombia. His name is mentioned in the judicial files of the prosecutor’s office. While in Chocó Luis Emilio RomanaCertified by We Are All Colombia.
The Attorney General’s compilation is important both in terms of names it has and does not record. For example, the document shows no trace of people who wanted to be elected by citizens and were involved in recent scandals, such as former senator Rodolfo Hernández and the coastal politician Samuel Santander Lopesierra, nicknamed “El Hombre”. Marlboro’.
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According to prosecutor Margarita Cabello, Hernández, who was not authorized, was not included on the list due to failure to serve the third disciplinary order against him on the grounds that he insulted the citizen observer and would deprive him of participation. this procedure is done.
Now, this process can take place after the October 29 elections, which will not prevent him from being dismissed if he is elected.anyone. In any event, his defense insists these decisions do not deprive him of competing for the governorship of Santander.
On the other hand, Lopesierra, who was the subject of the Nicolás Petro scandal for being one of the people who allegedly contributed to President Gustavo Petro’s campaign, is not mentioned by the Attorney General’s Office as he has never been a public official and therefore has no sanctions. Disciplinary nature that prevented him from running for mayor of Maicao.
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In Oneida Pinto’s case, He has two financial records in the Department of Financial Affairs; if he fixes them with fines of 2,855 and 2,491 million pesos, he will be able to get rid of them and continue his political ambitions in Albania..
According to Cabello, speaking at a forum at Universidad del Rosario, “registered ones are sent to the National Electoral Council (CNE) to conduct the relevant investigation and verify whether there is room for deregistration. Without a criminal judge, the CNE cannot stop maintaining the pressure”.
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Regarding political parties and movements, for example, Fuerza Ciudadana’sDisqualified on January 52, Conservative Party 50, Partido de la U 33, Cambio Radikal 32, Alianza Verde 26, same as Dignidad y Compromiso political party, New Liberalism 23.
Likewise, the Liberal Party’s 15, the Historical Pact 17, Colombian Humana’s 12, ‘Lara Bogotá’s 6, the National Liberation’s 5, and the Democratic Center’s with the least one candidate were disqualified.
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