Consultation on the Historic Pact: Low turnout and complaints marked the day

Senator Iván Cepeda secured the Historic Pact nomination after beating former Health Minister Carolina Corcho in the party poll on Sunday.

(Read: Cepeda and Corcho will compete to determine the direction of the left in Colombia .)

At 4 p.m., the 20,000 polling stations closed, and the 142,021 jurors began counting the votes.

They denounce the transfer of tables

For his part, Iván Cepeda denounced this Sunday that the electoral organization moved 4,000 polling stations on the day of the Historic Pact.

"There are 4,000 polling stations that have been relocated to municipal seats in rural areas of the country. Areas where voting for the Historic Pact is known to be extremely large and massive," Cepeda said after voting in the Kennedy neighborhood, in southwestern Bogotá.

Cepeda highlighted the voter turnout: "All the reports we have so far indicate that it's a massive, multitudinous turnout in many parts of the country." However, he said he noted "with concern the inconsistencies, irregularities, and limitations that have been imposed by the electoral organization so that citizens' rights can be exercised in the best possible way."

Meanwhile, former minister Corcho stated after voting that her goal "is to achieve significant participation, because it is very important for this country that a political party has used an instrument of democracy to determine its positions and its candidacies by popular and citizen vote."

Petro criticizes electoral organization

For his part, President Petro denounced inconsistencies on the part of the National Registry, the entity that organizes the elections, during the Historic Pact vote, although he highlighted the turnout of voters at the polling stations.

"The disaster at the Registry Office, its systems program that crashes or is sabotaged, leaves citizens without voting. They failed to comply: there were 13,000 positions and there are 9,000," Petro wrote on his X account after voting in southern Bogotá.

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