From https://x.com/petrogustavo/status/2068743816387936356

Here’s an article listing some of them : https://www.elciudadano.com/actualidad/elecciones-presidenciales-en-colombia-informe-parcial-de-denuncias-publicas-sobre-irregularidades/06/21

Presidential Elections in Colombia : Partial Report on Public Allegations of Irregularities

The election day of June 21 initially recorded 2,612 reports of irregularities. Marked ballots were reported in 14 departments, along with vote-buying and identity impersonation.

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The most recurrent complaints point to a systematic pattern : the handing out of ballots already marked in favor of candidate Abelardo de la Espriella, or in the blank-vote box, with dots or “accidental” marks which, according to those making the allegations, were meant to invalidate possible votes for Iván Cepeda.
These reports were accompanied by multiple allegations of vote-buying outside polling stations, campaign advertising on election day, and mobility obstacles affecting the right to vote.

In Barranquilla, journalist Natalia Dávila, from Radio Nacional de Colombia, reported through the official @RadNalCo account on 𝕏 that complaints had been filed in different regions over alleged irregularities during election day.
Specifically, at one polling table in the Colegio Británico de Barranquilla, previously marked ballots were reportedly found, some with corrections or checkmark-like marks at the moment the electoral material was handed out.
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In Maicao, La Guajira, a complaint published on by the user @jovenesconcepedayaidabogota documented that, at polling table 15 of Colegio El Carmen, ballots allegedly marked in the box for Abelardo de la Espriella were being handed out — a practice which, according to those making the complaint, would invalidate votes for Cepeda.
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Vote-buying : convicted businessmen and municipal contractors under scrutiny

(…) President Gustavo Petro posted a video on his 𝕏 account @petrogustavo allegedly showing a citizen in Cartagena with 121 votes already marked for candidate Abelardo de la Espriella, a situation he described as a citizen mobilization to protect the vote.
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In Santa Marta, congresswoman Mafe Carrascal Rojas stated through her 𝕏 account @MafeCarrascal that businessman Enrique Vives Caballero, who was sentenced in 2022 to seven years and eight months in prison for running over and killing six people, had been seen buying votes for De la Espriella.
The congresswoman, who shared a video of the incident, demanded that the Attorney General’s Office and INPEC review the businessman’s situation and provide explanations to the public.

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President Gustavo Petro also claimed on his 𝕏 account @petrogustavo that contractors working for the Medellín mayor’s office were buying votes in Comuna 15, specifically outside the Benjamín Herrera Educational Institution.
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Identity impersonation, obstacles, and the call to electoral witnesses

A large number of electoral witnesses reportedly did not receive the credentials needed to carry out their oversight duties, a situation that could affect the transparency of the process. This complaint was published on Instagram by the user @jovenesconcepedayaidabogota (…)

Along the same lines, RTVC Noticias documented during its live coverage that an elderly man at Universidad El Bosque in Bogotá reported that his signature already appeared on the National Registry Office forms, a serious case of alleged identity impersonation.

In Ibagué, leaders of the Historic Pact denounced the arrest of a coordinator of electoral witnesses, and reports emerged that identity cards belonging to deceased people had been enabled for voting.
Mobility also became an obstacle, with a transportation crisis in Barranquilla and heavy congestion in Ibagué due to road closures, particularly affecting elderly voters.

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Some of you may not know that Gustavo Petro is usually considered as Colombia’s first ever left-wing president, which is why he was called a dictator and targeted :


As for Venezuela, Bolivia, etc., drugs were only an excuse, which should surprise no-one if you’ve read a bit of history because that accusation has been overused these past decades, and you should also not be surprised that it’s a complete lie of course, because there has never been a consequence for lying, and we apparently still require pretexts for our attacks :
Much of the rise of coca leaf production in the last few years happened under Duque, US’s close ally, who now works for the Wilson Center in Washington DC. In 2024 the Center even launched the “Iván Duque Center for Prosperity & Freedom”.

He’s recognising that the production of coca continue to increase during his presidency, but says that it’s increasing much slower than under his predecessor(, en 2022 (el año en que Petro inició su presidencia) el aumento fue del 12%, en 2023 del 10% y en 2024, apenas del 3% (…), durante el Gobierno del antecesor de Petro, Iván Duque, cuando solo en 2021 las hectáreas crecieron en un 43% según esa misma oficina de la ONU), and with more cocaine seized(, « Desde el inicio de su mandato, en agosto de 2022, la actual administración ha incautado 2.800 toneladas de cocaína, según el ministerio de Defensa, la cifra más alta en las últimas décadas. »).

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What else ?
Well, of course he takes care of the poor(, and trickle-up economics worked) :


(from https://x.com/petrogustavo/status/2012198943564648513)


Recently, 67 leading international economists, scholars, and public policy figures have signed an open letter backing Colombia’s economic transformation under President Gustavo Petro, saying the country is demonstrating that “another economic path is possible” by breaking from decades of neoliberal orthodoxy : https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/2067260545418313828

So why doesn’t he have >90% of the votes ? This man accuses capitalist-owned medias, i personally do not know anything about their mediatic situation.

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Ok, what else ?
Here’s for ecology :

Here’s for the right obsessed with small instances of crimes(, especially if done by an immigrant, even though statistics proved that migrants do less crimes than natives, despite being poorer[1], and that insecurity isn’t increasing, but they still ask for more repression/authoritarianism, seems like one more instance of the left reducing crimes) :

And the right also gets elected each time(, at least in France,) under the promise that they’ll reduce our deficit, and they never kept their promise in decades, but will continue to get elected on this basis :

Of course, when i’m reading people from the right who are cherry-picking facts that go in their direction, it’s annoying, and i’m doing the same here, ideally i should also point out the downsides of his presidency(, articles accuses him of not bringing down the post-covid deficit because of his social reforms for instance), and i should also go much deeper than this analysis. This is what you’ll get from an internet post written in ~2 hours.

https://x.com/i/status/2068485343460880441

Edit : [1] : Screenshot taken from Open Borders, his source being United States Census Bureau 2018b, and their argument much broader than this.
Not taken from their ~30 pages of notes and references :
« Concentrated poverty predicts more violence »

« First-generation immigrants’ odds of violence are almost half those of third-generation immigrants (…) second-generation immigrants’ odds are approximately three quarters those of third-generation immigrants »

« Foreign-born individuals exhibit remarkably low levels of involvement in crime across their life course (…) by the second generation, immigrants have simply caught up to their native-born counterparts »

« cities that experienced increases in immigration from 1980 to 2000 experienced a decrease in violent crime rates »

These stats aren’t confirmed in european countries, perhaps because european ‘countries are less inequal’/‘natives aren’t as poor as the foreign-born’.
« immigrants of non-Western backgrounds have a conviction index of 124 ([the average index in Denmark being] 93), and their children born in Denmark have index 214 ; both numbers adjusted for age structure and family income. Indexes that do not consider socioeconomic backgrounds are higher.»(, perhaps that this index would go lower and lower if they keep adjusting for other factors in comparison to natives with the same education, employment, geographical location, familial situation, …)
The problem is not simply “poor migrants”, but a mix of being poor, illegal/precarious, with no right to work, in disadvantaged neighborhoods, … A crime-based immigration policy wouldn’t filter by nationality but criminal records, and would provide immigrants with jobs to integrate themselves.

I don’t think that i ever talked as much about immigration before, my p.o.v. is that the rich people in orbit from the movie Elysium were assholes.
So i’m ok for closing our borders to the poors, but only if all countries have the same(±20%) standard of living, they wouldn’t really be poorer anyway, otherwise we’re assholes.
Some countries want their culture to be a melting-pot of all diversities, while others would prefer a clearer direction, and the french right would be between both of them by supporting the west instead of France, rejecting muslims without criticizing a much more omnipresent americanization, to each country its choice 🤷. What’s immoral is living in luxury while closing our doors to the poors, and continuing to profit off them.
In France there’s a thing about admitting that the UK has bested us entirely, but the french influence could ‘have shined’/‘still shine’ much more than currently if it developed french-speaking countries, just like South America help(ed) Spain and the Portugal to keep an influence, and certainly the british with their own colonies. Instead of that we{french} profited off our ex-colonies, i think that we should divert a lot of our GDP and patents/machines to make them quickly reach the european standard of living. That would be in our own selfish interest.

Edit 2 : To come back on Colombia, there are more than 57.189 reclamations now, but it seems like it’ll be hard to prove anything beyond some irregularities.
Just like in France and other countries, in theory their Delegados copies should be enough of a countermeasure because anyone can compare them with the public results of each of their 122.000 mesas, assuming that there’s a genuine civilian oversight in each case then anyone can do the calculus from the public results to ensure that there’s no cheating. Yet if we(sterners) regularly accuse those we don’t like of cheating at elections even if they have the same system(, Venezuela, if we omit 2024 following a cyberattack, Russia, Belarus, Iran, …), then there may be other ways(, difficulties to be able to vote, buying votes, fake votes casted, …, or, you know, buying medias or sanctioning them to death), all difficult to prove beyond some videos showing some specific instance of cheating.

Edit 3 : En tan solo 48 horas, la misión de COHESIA recibió cerca de 5.000 documentos remitidos por ciudadanos denunciando presuntas irregularidades