Colombia Elections 2022: Marelen Castillo votes and promises to respect the result of the elections

The Colombian vice-presidential candidate marelen castlerunning mate of the populist Rodolfo Hernandezassured after voting in Cali (southwest) that they will respect the results of the second round of the elections in which this Sunday they face the leftist Gustavo Petro.

“Today you have to win Colombia and we have to accept the decision of the Colombians (…) We are going to trust the Registrar’s Office (electoral organization), we are going to trust that the difference is so great that the decision of all Colombians is respected,” he said. Castle to journalists after voting in a school in Cali, capital of the department of Valle de Cauca.

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Castle said this after Petro called for a “massive vote” to “defeat any attempt at fraud” this Sunday in the second presidential round in Colombia.

This is the closest election in recent times in Colombia since the polls give a technical tie between Hernández and Petro, candidate of the left-wing coalition Historical Pact.

Colombian independent presidential candidate Rodolfo Hernández’s running mate, Marelen Castillo, shows her ballot at a polling station in Cali. (STR/AFP).

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If she wins, Castillo assured that she and Hernández will “work throughout Colombia, to unite Colombia.”

“It is our union proposal and we are going to govern by everyone and for everyone,” he said, and immediately after he added: “May Colombia win today.”

Hernández will receive the results of the elections at his home in Bucaramanga, the capital of the department of Santander (northeast), while Castillo will be in Bogotá, “where his family is going”.

In Colombia, the first public information about the voting is done through the pre-count, which is what the jurors do after counting the votes and filling out the forms, a result that is later collated in a scrutiny.

In the first round, which Petro won with 8,527,768 votes (40.32%) and Hernández was second with 5,953,209 (28.15%), the Registrar assured that the difference between the precount and the count differed so only 0.1%.

Although there was a very big difference between one and the other in the legislative elections of March 13, when the count showed that almost 400,000 votes of the Historical Pact, formation of Petro, for the Senate had not been properly counted.

Source: Elcomercio