Controversy in Colombia over a video with the alleged results of the elections

The National Registry of Civil Status denies the images and urges to combat disinformation

MADRID, 19 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The National Registry of Civil Status of Colombia, the public body in charge of organizing the elections, has denied this Saturday the authorship of a video and several images that have been disseminated on social networks and that attributed the victory of the election to the presidential candidate Rodolfo Hernández. election contest.

The graphic material, shared through the Twitter platform, shows several slides with the departments in which each candidate would have won, as well as the total votes. The images show that Rodolfo Hernández would be the winner with 45.75 percent of the votes, compared to 45.39 percent of those obtained by the other presidential candidate, Gustavo Petro.

The latter, a presidential candidate for the Historical Pact political party, has requested an explanation from the Registrar through his personal Twitter account.

On the other hand, the secretary general of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), Luis Guillermo Pérez, has detailed that the Registrar has confirmed that "this simulation was done in the entity through the contracting firm Indra on random data from municipalities and departments". "As a magistrate of the CNE (National Electoral Council), I demand an explanation from the company and the Registrar," he added.

However, the National Registry of Civil Status of Colombia has assured on Saturday afternoon, through the same social network, that its organization "does not make simulations or statistical projections on results."

Likewise, the entity has asked that citizens not "fall" into disinformation and that they go "only to official portals and media." "The Registrar's Office only communicates results in official bulletins that are published after the voting closes," he recalled.

Finally, the organization has reiterated in its message the guarantee of transparency in the elections, due to eight international observation missions, more than 410 observers and accredited NGOs from 33 countries.

In addition, it points out that there are tens of thousands of electoral witnesses from the political parties of the candidates for the presidency --71,000 electoral witnesses from the Historical Pact and more than 52,000 from the League of Anti-Corruption Governors--, as well as an audited 'software', which is owned by the Electoral Organization.