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On August 7, Abelardo de la Espriella is set to be sworn in as the Colombian president in a process known as \u201cempalme,\u201d however, not without a challenge.<\/p>\n
Outgoing president Gustavo Petro, who was not on the ballot and is termed-limited, has challenged the June runoff victory in the Colombian courts following the suspension of \u201cempalme\u201d by de la Espriella earlier this month, according to the AP<\/a>.<\/p>\n On July 17, Petro sued in Colombia\u2019s Council of State, sitting as its Administrative Litigation Chamber\u2019s Fifth Section.\u00a0 According to the filing, after translation into English, Petro is arguing that election authorities significantly reduced transparency and technical safeguards that were previously used to authenticate and verify official election documents.<\/p>\n Polling station documents, E-14s, no longer include key metadata, timestamps, document identifiers, and other digital features that allow independent verification.\u00a0 Petro has asked the court to compel the production of records to include logs, hash values, version histories, protocols, and other system documentation, in order to determine whether the changes were properly authorized and whether they impaired the verifiability of the election.<\/p>\n Petro seeks the invalidation of the official results, or, alternatively, he is calling for a new canvass or judicial audit, a forensic inspection of the election systems, production of technical evidence, and targeted recounts and corrections where the court finds the results cannot be independently verified.<\/p>\n Aqu\u00ed se encuentra la demanda de nulidad de la elecci\u00f3n presidencial del 2026.<\/p>\n Su lenguaje t\u00e9cnico ser\u00e1 explicado en videos que traduzcan hacia la comunicaci\u00f3n popular.<\/p>\n Es presentada por los \u201ctestigos digitales*, que en n\u00famero de 70.000 ciudadanos y ciudadanas, lograron\u2026<\/p>\n \u2014 Gustavo Petro (@petrogustavo) July 21, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The Gateway Pundit previously reported last month that, immediately following the runoff election, Petro began to call into question the results on social media.<\/p>\n In one of many posts<\/a> from June, Petro claims that \u201c177,000 votes in favor of Abelardo\u201d came from overseas voters, \u201cespecially in the US.\u201d<\/p>\n More recently, President Petro took to X<\/a> to claim that \u201cthey\u201d took down pages where he had posted evidence of \u201calgorithmic electoral fraud carried out in the US.\u201d<\/p>\n In a translated video posted in June<\/a>, he claimed that \u201cthe Bautista brothers\u2019 software, as of the 2018 Council of State ruling stated \u2013 is vulnerable to internal and external actions against the vote.\u201d\u00a0 The video purports to show hash files being altered.\u00a0 Here is the original video with English subtitles:<\/p>\n Colombian President Gustavo Petro claimed, before this CIA Note was declassified by President Trump, that \u201cHash lock\u201d files were changed in files posted by the country\u2019s registrar.<\/p>\n Petro announced a legal challenge to the election results this week.<\/p>\n This video with english\u2026 https:\/\/t.co\/TqWjEiDm7m<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/SMLufCQoJY<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 CannCon (@canncon) July 23, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Last week, the State Department released a statement by the members<\/a> of the Shield of the Americas.\u00a0 In it, they reinforce support for the Colombian election, stating:<\/p>\n We observe with deep concern the recent statements and actions that, without duly substantiated grounds, cast doubt on the integrity of the electoral process in the Republic of Colombia and generate uncertainty regarding the normal course of the institutional transition.<\/p>\n In every constitutional democracy, the sovereign will of the citizens \u2014 freely expressed at the ballot box and formalized by the competent electoral authorities \u2014 constitutes the sole foundation of the legitimacy of public power.\u00a0 Disregarding the results officially proclaimed by said authorities constitutes a serious disregard for the popular will and for the principles that underpin the Rule of Law.<\/p>\n We reject any action, statement, or decision that seeks to delegitimize the mandate conferred by the citizens, to discredit without basis the competent electoral authorities, or to obstruct the institutional transition, known in Colombia as the\u00a0empalme\u00a0process.\u00a0 The transition between governments does not constitute a political concession, but rather a constitutional and institutional duty designed to guarantee the continuity of the State, democratic stability, and the effective fulfillment of the popular will.<\/p>\n We issue a firm call to all Colombian authorities to act in strict adherence to the Constitution, the law, and democratic principles; to respect the results officially proclaimed by the competent electoral authorities; and to guarantee a peaceful, orderly, and transparent transition, in accordance with the highest standards of the Rule of Law.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The post Colombian President Gustavo Petro Challenges Presidential Election \u2013 Sues in Colombian Court to Annul Results<\/a> appeared first on The Gateway Pundit<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On August 7, Abelardo de la Espriella is set to be sworn in as the Colombian president in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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