The mayor of Medellín, Daniel Quintero Calle, presented this Thursday during a press conference evidence in which it is allegedly shown that the Recall Committee violated the ceilings for financing the campaign and, apparently,used resources from the support unit of Councilman Julio González Villa.
Quintero accused the councilman (promoter of the recall) of have paid with public resources of the Council from Medellín to the accountant Sofía León Rojas for the recall.
According to the president, according to the contract, submitted by the Recall Committee itself, the amount agreed with León Rojas was about 25 million pesos, 15 million pesos for the recall process, but it is detected that only he paid him in principle 7 and a half million.
We started looking for where the rest of the money was, our surprise is that we found the payment made by the Council of Medellín
“We started looking for where the rest of the money was, our surprise is that we found the payment made by the Medellín Council through the support unit of the recall spokesman, Julio González, who in two contracts pays him in total 15 million pesos, the same amount curiously, but not surprisingly, the recall was financed with public resources,” said Mayor Daniel Quintero.
On the other hand, the mayor presented the final accounts report of the Pact for Medellín, in which, according to him, it is evident that the ceilings established by law to finance this democratic system were exceeded.
“We already have sufficient evidence that this recall was financed irregularly (…) The ceilings, both individual and general, of the recall were violated. The recall is dead, in Medellín we are no longer worried about that, the ones who should be worried about responding are thembecause in Colombia there are laws and no one is above the law,” said the mayor.
It should be remembered that last Monday, after reviewing for the third time the signatures of citizens who are in favor of calling an election that defines whether or not the mayor of Medellín continues in office, the Registrar’s Office reported that 132,547 are valid.
Quintero indicated that he is not concerned that the electoral authority will endorse the signatures again, since he has already presented this evidence for the possible use of public resources before the National Electoral Council, the Attorney General’s Office and the Comptroller’s Office.
This occurs just when the National Electoral Council (CNE) is expected to certify the resources of the committee behind the recall to call an election.
Currently, the CNE is carrying out a process to determine if there were irregularities in the financing of the collection of signatures and if the ceilings established by law were violated.
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