Daniel Quintero says that appeals for revocation will not be certified - Medellín - Colombia

The controversy surrounding the financial statements of the recall committee of the mayor of Medellín, Daniel Quinterowhich must be certified by the National Electoral Council (CNE), as a procedure for voting to be called to define whether or not the president continues in office.

This Saturday, February 27, Mayor Quintero spoke on his Twitter account about this procedure and assured that the recall “was dead.”

“As we warned, the recall is dead, the National Financing Fund of the CNE, through official letter I-2022-001385-FNFPCE-900 refrained from certifying recall accounts due to irregularities in financing and audios that revealed corrupt practices of promoters,” tweeted the local president.

However, This official document has not been released by the CNE, which has not made a statement on the matter either.

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As we warned, the revocation is dead, the National Financing Fund of the CNE, through official letter I-2022-001385-FNFPCE-900, refrained from certifying revocation accounts due to irregularities in financing and audios that revealed corrupt practices of promoters.

– Daniel Quintero Calle (@QuinteroCalle) February 26, 2022

For his part, Andrés Felipe Rodríguez, spokesman for the Pact for Medellin, questioned whether Mayor Quintero knew the filer’s number, a fact that ensures that they did not even have it.

“The only true thing about that tweet is the filing number, but we as promoters of the recall have not even sent us the document, but a question does arise: do you have the document? who gave it to him? Why are you assuring things that are not true?” Rodríguez said.

And he ended with the following statement: “Do you know what is dead? Your administration, that is dead.”

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Days before, the recall committee had assured, also via Twitter, that the financial statements had been approved.

“It seems that yesterday we were taken into account in the full room and according to a call I just received, the financial statements were approved. I warn: I still do not have an official confirmation from the CNE, I know that it goes to electoral management“says the trill.

Thus, the only thing left to do is wait for the CNE to make an official statement to find out whether or not a vote will be called to remove the mayor of Medellín.

Quintero has made several complaints about irregularities in financing. Among them, resources from the Medellin Council were used to pay for a meter.

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Revocation of Daniel Quintero: mayor presented evidence against committee - Medellín - Colombia

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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Mayor of Sincelejo sued Revocation Process - Other Cities - Colombia

Before the Attorney General’s Office the mayor of Sincelejo, Andrés Gómez Martínez, demanded the revocation process initiated against him, by identifying forged signatures.

Last week the National Registry of Civil Status endorsed 34,440 signatures, out of a little more than 62,000 that were collected and delivered by the Revocation Committee.

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At that time, more than 22,000 signatures were annulled due to anomalies. After that, the list of people who signed was known and then other irregularities were confirmed.

Relatives of people who appear signing denounced that their loved ones died many years ago, which for them constitutes a painful affront.

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This was said by Rosa Bertel, who stated that her relative died more than 20 years ago and is on the list provided by the Registry.

Committee would have acted without consulting the steps to follow

Likewise, complaints were filed by people who did not sign, who work in the same administration, and even provincial sub-controllers were identified.

“I have tried not to interfere in the issue and I have given way to democracy, that the pro-revocation committee does its job, however, I believe that the time has come to act and seek that things be done with transparency. We have given power to our lawyer to file the respective complaints due to the large number of anomalies that have been detected in this process,” said Mayor Andrés Gómez.

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Said They also await a new pronouncement by the Registry in relation to a new analysis of the signatures.

Committee Member Resignation

Also known during the week was the resignation of one of the spokesmen for the movement seeking the recall, teacher Álex Manuel Sierra, who reportedly became aware of the anomalous situations that have occurred during the process of collecting the signatures and now with the result of the presumed falsification of the same.

Álex Sierra said in his letter that the committee would have acted without consulting the steps to follow and that it had nothing to do with the complaints that were being made in the process.

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For now, the members of the committee and the lawyers of the municipal administration have said that they will first wait for the new endorsement of signatures from the Registrar and the result of the complaint they filed with their respective evidence.

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Revocation of Daniel Quintero: the committee demands speed from the CNE - Medellín - Colombia

With the numeral #CNEApruebe, the promoters of the recall of the mayor of Medellin, Daniel Quinteroand those who support it, demonstrated on social networks requesting speed from the National Electoral Council (CNE) so that it delivers the certificate of the accounting reports of the recall process.

Andrés Rodríguez, representative of the Recall Committee, stated that this process is already in the final stretch.

“Both the CNE and the Registry are aware that Daniel Quintero’s recall is inevitable. These are the last days, before they approve everything and we will finally go to the polls. Patience and prudence,” Rodríguez said.

The spokesman for the committee added that the officials of the CNE campaign accounts should already have finished the report to pass it on to the plenary room so that the financial statements can be approved.

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See then, who would say that the @CNE_COLOMBIA has not been able to give us the approval for the revocation of Medellin.? What does it depend on? All legal protocols have been met, so when? #CNEAprove

– Margarita London (@mimialr1961) February 9, 2022

Once this stage has been completed, the President of the Republic will be in charge of setting a date for citizens to come out to vote the recall.

For his part, the lawyer Juan Giraldo Mora, asked the magistrates to issue the resolution so that votes can be called.

“I believe that all the steps have been fulfilled, the pertinent explanations have been given and the principle of innocence that accompanies the actions of people must be respected,” said the lawyer.

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