Without guarantees for the elections on March 13, This is how the candidates for the peace seats in Antioquia arewho, a month before being measured at the polls, have not been able to start campaigning because the National Government has not disbursed the resources, which adds to the lack of security in the territories due to the presence of armed groups.
Several entities have already warned about the risks of this electoral contest, the most recent was the Ombudsman’s Office, which indicated this Thursday that the candidates and communities of the South of Córdoba and Bajo Cauca Antioqueño and Chocó are at high risk due to the action of groups armed.
Although this electoral alert was for the entire national territory, due to the pressure exerted by the ELN, the FARC dissidents and the Clan del Golfomainly, was made from the municipality of Caucasia, one of the Antioquia territories that are included in the special transitory districts of peace.
Through these special transitional constituencies for peace (CTEP), the victims will have representation in the Congress of the Republic for the first time this year, so the elections will be held in the rural area of prioritized municipalities in 16 groups.
Antioquia was included in four of the CTEPs. Section 3, which corresponds to the North, Northeast and Lower Cauca regions and covers 13 municipalities (Amalfi, Anorí, Briceño, Cáceres, Caucasia, El Bagre, Ituango, Nechí, Remedios, Segovia, Tarazá, Valdivia and Zaragoza); 6, which is made up of two Antioquia municipalities (Vigía del Fuerte and Murindó), sharing space with 12 from Chocó; section 13, which covers the municipality of Yondó (Antioquia) and shares space with six others in the department of Bolívar; and 16, which includes eight municipalities from Urabá Antioquia (Carepa, Chigorodó, Mutatá, Necoclí, San Pedro de Urabá, Apartadó and Turbo) and one from the West (Dabeiba).
Added to the alert from the Ombudsman in Bajo Cauca was that of the Electoral Observation Mission (MOE), which indicated that 58% of the 167 municipalities of the Special Transitory Circumscriptions of Paz present some level of electoral risk, but more than the third part is concentrated in the Districts of Nariño-Cauca-Valle, Bajo Cauca and Chocó (38.1%).
According to the EOM, in terms of risk due to factors of violence and indicators of electoral fraud, in C3 Bajo Cauca, 9 of its municipalities are at extreme risk and 4 at high risk, which means that 100% of the municipalities in that district have worrying levels of risk.
In turn, in the two municipalities that are part of constituency number, the municipalities of Vigía del Fuerte and Murindó are one at high risk and the other at extreme. And of those in Urabá Antioquia, three municipalities are at high risk and one is at extreme risk.
In turn, Amalfi, Anorí and Segovia are the municipalities at greatest risk of electoral fraud, says the MOE.
“The EOM recommends that the electoral authorities, attorney general, prosecutor’s office and national police adopt the necessary measures to prevent and promptly investigate actions indicative of crimes or irregularities against the electoral process such as electoral transhumance, vote buying, or any other action that affects the electoral transparency”, said Alejandra Barrios, director of the MOE.
Difficulties in financing
These elections will take place in the rural areas of the 167 municipalities most affected by violence in Colombia. In these, 16 seats will be elected, among 403 candidates from social organizations, of victims, peasants and women, and of ethnic organizations.
In Antioquia, 68 candidates belonging to 34 organizations were registered, according to data from the Registrar’s Office, because it had to be done through a joint list (a man and a woman) with two candidates each. Of these organizations, seven are for victims, four are for peasants, there are three community councils, an indigenous reservation and a significant group of citizens, in addition to 18 social organizations.
Fernando Valencia, a professor at the University of Antioquia, explained that there are serious difficulties in this process, one of the points of the Peace Agreement for the victims to see themselves represented in Congress. The first, said the expert, was that these elections were put “by force” in the electoral calendar of the elections to Congress, which have been taking place for two years.
One of the main obstacles now is misinformation, since voters in rural areas do not recognize the mechanics of these votes, there is no pedagogy on the subject and there are large deficits of identity cards and voting stations.
“The social organizations that applied for candidacies have not been able to access state financing, because they were given a peremptory term, they did not have the information, they have not been able to access the conditions of the guarantee policies, which are quite demanding and quite expensive, and because social organizations do not have the administrative and accounting structure, neither financial nor legal, to support these requirements”, Valencia pointed out.
Víctor José Palacios Villa, candidate from the municipality of Necoclí, pointed out that precisely at this moment he has not been able to acquire the policy required by the National Government for the disbursement of resources, taking into account that financing by third parties is prohibited.
“That today the resources have not arrived from the Government is traumatic, because it is in the resolution, but they put some requirements on us, such as the issue of policies, and today in Urabá we have not been able to find an insurer that allows us to insure those resources. Today we, the victims’ candidates, are in limbo, I speak to you from my case, an organization of victims that has no assets and has no way of running campaigns,” Palacios said.
Social networks, meetings and messages have been the only tools until now, to campaign, but the situation is complex as they have to travel to rural areas and remote from the municipalities.
“I personally have not been able to advance, that is why I have been thinking of joining a colleague who is from here in Segovia, because the guarantees are none. We have no budget and we have nothing. This is the work of us, the victims’ leaders, there are so many obstacles that they put in our way”, said candidate Luz Aleida Herrera Castaño.
the machineries
According to teacher Valencia, what the law stipulates is that the only way to donate money to these campaigns is through a state fund, administered by the Registrar’s Office and the National Electoral Council, where the resources must be distributed equitably among the campaigns, although in practice this would not be the case.
Some leaders have denounced a display of propaganda, resources, meetings and events that are not being financed with state resources, so the authorities must put the magnifying glass on several things.
The first is that the candidates are indeed victims and that they meet the requirements of territorial and sectoral representation, an aspect that apparently is not being met in all cases, although these had to be certified by the Victims Unit. The second is the real financing of the campaigns and if there is a relationship with the traditional political parties, which is not allowed, and of course the security of the candidates.
meet the candidates
Victims Organizations
1. Corporation of Surviving Victims of the Conflict in Urabá Envisioning Peace – Comupaz
Candidates: Jhony Rufino Lozano and Inés Mestra Yanes
2. Association of Displaced Persons of Necoclí – Asodene
Candidates: Víctor José Palacios Villa and Herly Patricia Garcés Vidal
3. Association of Displaced Persons of the Municipality of Briceño
Candidates: Jhon Jairo González Agudelo and Martha Eliana Cardozo Díaz
4. Regional Corporation for the Defense of Human Rights – Credhos
Candidates: Juan Pablo Méndez Zuluaga and Ángela Oriana Martínez Ojeda
5. Association of Displaced Persons and Women of Antioquia “Adma”
Candidates: Anaidalyt Delgado Lezama and Bairon Augusto Pérez Vélez
6. Environmental and Social Corporation Building Peace – Coapaz
Candidates: Manzur Agustín Sierra and Esther Cecilia Cabrera Pérez
7. Environmental and Social Corporation Building Peace – Coapaz
Candidates: Sandra Milena Puerta Buriticá and Manuel Tapias Montes
Social Organizations
8. Funvisoc
Candidates: Doris Patricia Carvajal Londoño and Germán Horacio Sucerquia Jaramillo
9. Strength and Will Therapeutic Community Foundation
Candidates: Jorge Arley Guisao Cifuentes and Paola Andrea Gutiérrez Rodríguez
10. Multiactive Social Cooperative Working Together – Coosocialtj
Candidates: Gabriel Antonio León Manco and Leydy Johana Castrillón Palencia
11. Foundation for the Comprehensive Development of Victims and Disabled Fundamasvida
Candidates: Ángela María Hernández Peña and Daniel Solano Hoyos
12. Green Hearts Corporation
Candidates: Roberto Arturo Mejía Vásquez and Lina Marcela Villegas López
13. Redesc Corporation
Candidates: Dibia Estela Escobar Mendoza and Hildemaro Cruz Borja
14. Association of Victims of Violence in Riosucio Clamores
Candidates: Diober Silvestre Blanco Agamez and Geanys Barba Padilla
15. Intercultural Association for the People and Forests of San Lucas – Asigeboslu
Candidates: María Margarita Palacio Pérez and Servio Nolasco Urzola Muñoz
16. Family and Friends Association of Chocó – Asfachocó
Candidates: Edwin Delgado Córdoba and Yajaira Salazar Córdoba
17. Segovia-Remedios Mining Board Association
Candidates: Yarley Erasmo Marín López and Liliana Patricia Peláez Gil
18. Mano de Dios New Dawn Committee of Displaced Persons Association (Asocodeman)
Candidates: Frank David Mejía Jiménez and Marledys del Carmen Ciprián Mejía
19. Shared Happiness Corporation
Candidates: Eusebio Palmera Berrío and Marley Moreno Córdoba
20. Guild Association of Heveiculturists of the Nechí River Basin – Asogrecan
Candidates: Generoso Segundo Barragán Martínez and Sandra Trujillo Salas
21. Turbo Harambe Afro-descendant Black Communities Social and Sports Corporation
Candidates: Gloria Elena Eljach Echavarría and Marlon Caro Úsuga
22. Corporation We Create Urabá – Corpocreamos
Candidates: Menderson Mosquera Quinto and Diana Marcela Hurtado Mosquera
23. Association of Agricultural Producers of the Vereda La Esperanza- Asproages
Candidates: Eduardo Enrique Páez Hernández and Madeny María Meneses Hoyos
24. Corpovigente Vision People Corporation
Candidates: Luis Guillermo Cardona Garzón and Luz Aleida Herrera Castaño
25. Diocesan Share Foundation
Candidates: Luis Eduardo Arvaez Villegas and Diana Tirado Hernandez
community councils
26. Community Council of the La Larga and Tumaradó Rivers
Candidates: Pablo Antonio López Moreno and Jaqueline Ospina Sepúlveda
27. Major Community Council of Nóvita “Cocoman”
Candidates: James Hermenegildo Mosquera Torres and Claudia Patricia Salas Perea
28. Middle Porce Community Council
Candidates: Jhon Jairo Robledo Palacio and María Cecilia Mosquera
peasant organizations
29. Peasant Association of Urabá Ascocamura Hope is Reborn
Candidates: Edier Esteban Manco Pineda and Alcira Blanquicet Navarro
30. Association of United Peasants of Caucasia- Asocamuc
Candidates: Ana Patricia Henao Arrieta and Manuel Eduardo Torres Herrera
31. Association of Canaleteras Futuristas for the Recovery of the Social Fabric and Peace- Growing Alongside the River
Candidates: Pablo Oved Moreno Espinosa and Luz Marina Jiménez Escobar
32. Association of Rubber Producers of the Vereda La Corcovada Municipality of Caucasia Asoccor
Candidates: Edith Margoth Navarro Arrieta and Róbinson Piedrahíta Henao
Indigenous reservation
33. Zenú El Volao Indigenous Reservation
Candidates: Sobeida González Márquez and Alberto Antonio Flórez Márquez
Significant group of citizens
34. I am Uraba
Candidates: Everto Arroyo Pérez and Karen Juliana López Salazar
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