Elections 2022 in Colombia: date, voting hours and how to know if I am a jury for the presidential elections

VOTING SCHEDULES FOR THE PRESIDENTIAL IN COLOMBIA 2022

According to the registrar Vega, the voting of Colombians abroad began on Monday, May 23, and will last until Sunday, May 29. In Colombia, the electoral day will begin on Sunday 29 from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm It is expected that around 6:00 in the afternoon, the first results of the voting will begin to be revealed.

SEE – Dry law in elections 2022: check the new schedule, when it starts and other restrictions

It should be noted that the dry law will be in force in the country from Saturday, May 28 at 6:00 p.m. until Monday, May 30 at 6:00 a.m. This measure seeks to guarantee public order, security, and rights and freedoms citizens, as the election day takes place.

HOW TO KNOW IF I AM A JURY FOR THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

Vega Rocha recalled that before going to the polls, it is important that citizens check the exact address of their polling place or if you belong to the jury in the National Registry website. He also explained that the yellow citizenship card with holograms It is the only valid document to be able to exercise the right to vote in Colombia.

“The password, the military book, the driving licenses, the passports and the ID cards with old format are NOT valid documents to appear at the polls”accurate.

HOW GUSTAVO PETRO IS GOING IN THE 2022 COLOMBIA ELECTIONS

Still 62 years old, Gustavo Petro sees himself as a “revolutionary” for various causes. With glasses and a fiery verb, he first fought against the State and now seeks, in democracy, to defeat the elites and install the left in power in Colombia for the first time.

Petro is a stubborn politician who aspires in his third and final attempt to reach the presidency. All the polls give him as the winner this Sunday, although in principle he will have to go to a ballot.

The senator and former mayor of Bogotá feels called to change nothing less than a “200-year history”. He has repeated it in the public square. “Giving speeches is now part of my mood,” he wrote in his autobiography “One Life, Many Lives.”

Born into a middle-class family, with a conservative father and a liberal mother, and educated by Lasallian priests, he raised the flags of change and rupture with the forces that have traditionally governed Colombia. His promotion frightens conservative sectors, ranchers and part of the business community and the military, who fear that his government will be a “leap into the void.”

Others, more moderate, are repelled by his messianism. “He thinks he is predestined (…) the only person who can save Colombia,” summed up a close source who spoke to the independent portal La Silla Vacía under reservation.

Anti-system, Petro describes himself as progressive rather than leftist, in an attempt to avoid being associated with a current that causes repudiation in a country with Marxist guerrillas at the center of a six-decade conflict.

But his past in armed struggle haunts him and he is the workhorse of his opponents. For 12 years he rebelled against the State that he now intends to fundamentally reform. Today the official arms protect it.

Several times threatened with death and forced into a three-year exile in Europe, Petro is the most protected candidate in this contest. In his last rallies he was seen practically armored with a bulletproof vest and shields around him, and at least 20 bodyguards on stage. In February, this economist confessed to AFP his fear that they would kill him. It has not been the first time that he has feared for his life.

IN WHAT PLACE WAS GUSTAVO PETRO IN THE LAST PRESIDENTIAL POLL

According to the newspaper The Colombian, there are three pollsters that shed light on what would be a very likely second round. One of the almost fixed at this stage would be Petro, with a very comfortable initial advantage; while it is the second place for which ‘Fico’ Gutiérrez and Rodolfo Hernández are still fighting, the growth of the latter would have had effects on the previous two.

COLOMBIA PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE 2022

During the “Decisive Debate”, organized by Prisa Media, the candidates Gustavo Petro, from the leftist Historical Pact; Federico Gutiérrez, from the right-wing Equipo por Colombia, and Sergio Fajardo, from the Centro Esperanza Coalition, presented their proposals on issues related to peace, the economy, and justice, among others.

It was a calm debate, with a lot of explanation of proposals and with hardly any hitches between them, as they have become accustomed to in the twenty debates that have been held in this electoral campaign in various media and universities.

This Sunday, Gutiérrez is playing the pass to a possible second round against Hernández, who, after his rise in the polls, has declined this week to attend any debate. Everything indicates that the favorite, Gustavo Petro, will have no problem winning, although he may not be given the numbers to do so in the first round.

CLOSURE OF BORDERS IN COLOMBIA DUE TO 2022 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

The Colombian government ordered the closure of the country’s land and river border crossings from Saturday, May 28, until Monday morning in order to guarantee the normality of the presidential elections on Sunday, official sources reported this Friday.

The measure was taken through a decree in which it was detailed that the decision will take effect from 18:00 local on Saturday (23:00 GMT) and 06:00 local (11:00 GMT) on Monday, May 30 for border crossings. of Colombia with Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil.

The director of Migration Colombia, Juan Francisco Espinosa, said in a statement from his office that the measure seeks to guarantee “total normality” in the development of the electoral day next Sunday 29.

The decree clarifies, however, that the closure measure will not apply to cases of transit that must be carried out for fortuitous reasons or force majeure, as well as for those Colombian citizens residing in Venezuela, who have their identification cards registered in the mirror consulates, who They operate in Colombian territory, in the border area.

Source: Elcomercio

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