They investigate the mayor of Manizales for pressure to vote for his cousin - Electoral News - Elections 2022

The Attorney General’s Office opened a preliminary investigation of the mayor of Manizales, Carlos Mario Marín, for alleged pressure on officials and contractors to favor with their vote their cousin, candidate for the House of Representatives for Caldas.

According to the Public Ministry, he received anonymous complaints that speak of the request for votes in favor of the Green Alliance candidate Santiago Osorio.

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“With all due respect, I request your intervention in the elections, since as a public official we are practically being forced to politically accompany the cousin of the mayor, and I see with great concern the active participation of several public servants exercising political proselytism,” the complaint says. which was recorded in the preliminary investigation order.

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It indicates that the entity will open the corresponding Preliminary Inquiry “in order to verify the occurrence of behaviors with a vocation for disciplinary reproach, identify or individualize the public and/or private servant allegedly compromised and establish if it has acted under the protection of a cause of exclusion of responsibility”.

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The mayor, for his part, reported that he had already filed with the Manizales Provincial Attorney’s Office and the Regional Attorney’s Office the evidence of the actions taken to “avoid conduct related to political proselytism” within the Manizales Mayor’s Office and its decentralized entities.

“Among the documents delivered are the certifications of the General Secretariat, Internal Disciplinary Control, Internal Control and the Office of Transparency, in which it is verified that, to date, there is no formal complaint due to political pressure. However, preventively It has been requested that the necessary actions and investigations be carried out in case of presentation, ”he reported.

From the Mayor’s Office they also pointed out that “the president has asked his Municipal Cabinet to act neutrally”, always oblivious to any project with political ends, in compliance with the Electoral Guarantees Law.

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“This position is supported by the formation of the Electoral Surveillance Committee of the Manizales Mayor’s Office, whose purpose is to apply mandatory sanctions in the event of political proselytism being found within the Administration and its decentralized entities,” adds the press release.

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