This Wednesday, April 15, the Minister of the Interior, Armando Benedettiassured that they will be taken necessary measures for ensure safety of the presidential candidates 2026 a few weeks away from first presidential round on May 31.
His statements were known in the middle of the Committee for Coordination and Recommendation of Protective Measures (CORMPE) in which a comprehensive review to the protection of the 14 candidates and their corresponding campaign headquarters.
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Paloma Valencia, candidate of the Democratic Center. Photo:DANIEL LÓPEZ.ELTIEMPO
Security schemes for presidential candidates
He interior minister He assured in the middle of a press conference that “they will be very robust schemes” and they are talking about “until 30 members of the Public Force and even five cars in a single scheme”.
“Then no one can say about what no protection will be givenalthough it will always be missing if it is necessary,” he pointed out. Armando Benedetti.
The decision is known after several days in which a threat against the candidate of the Democratic Center, Paloma Valencia. It is a image that began to circulate in social networks and that showed the senator in a funeral arrangement.
The events unleashed a wave of rejections on the part of embassies and of the UN Verification Missionwho also asked guarantees to improve the security in the electoral contest.
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In that same sense, Paloma Valencia shared a message on his X official account and maintained that he is not going to stop “until he gets a safe Colombia“.
“The threats and lack of guarantees They don’t stop us in this fight for a country without fearwhere they are not violent those who command and set the conditions (…) the only obsession of this campaign is to add for a largest colombia“, reads his statements.
In fact, the same page that threatened Valenciaalso attacked Abelardo de la Espriella. Faced with this, the Senator Mauricio Gómez Amin presented a complaint and assured that “this constitutes a very serious act that deserves the unanimous rejection of the country”.
Abelardo De La Espriella Photo:X @ABDELAESPRIELLA
Meanwhile, this Wednesday a investigation corresponding on a stroke in the headquarters of candidate Iván Cepeda in Medellin.
According to preliminary versionsthere is a banner with photo of the applicant throughout the building facade and right there, people who have not yet been identified, would have launched red paint.
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It should be noted that the past March 26a meeting was also led on the topic of security of presidential candidates. During the day, the National Government advanced a detailed analysis of the “assigned protection schemes” with the objective of identifying risks and “responding in a timely manner to challenges regarding electoral security“.
Iván Cepeda, senator. Photo:Milton Diaz. THE TIME
In it official statement of the Home Officeit was reiterated commitment to the protection of democracy“promoting secure and transparent elections for the country.”
Luisa Fernanda Gutiérrez Henao
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