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The Congress of the Republic was once again the scene of an embarrassing event. This time the incident occurred when during the discussion of the reform of the Electoral Code, which is discussed in the first committees of the Senate and the Chamber, Senator Armando Benedetti spoke in strong terms against Representative Angela Robledo.
While a proposal that sought to establish gender parity in the Colombian electoral system was being discussed, a session that took place virtually, Senator Benedetti began to talk with another person without noticing that his microphone was open and a phrase that immediately caused controversy due to its off-tone.
“… Angelica, the Goebertus and Angela Robledo’s hp,” the coastal senator was heard saying.
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Benedetti’s phrase came just at the moment when Representative Robledo intervened to refer to the issue of gender parity.
The incident immediately sparked controversy and was described by some organizations as “political violence.”
Faced with the collapse of the political reform, which established gender parity – that there should be 50 percent of women in Congress – different organizations and congressmen from different sectors included a similar proposal in the reform of the electoral code, a project that has greater possibilities of pass in the Legislative.
Although women make up more than half of the population in Colombia, they hold only 19 percent of the seats in Congress.
One of the most relevant changes is that the existence of four voting modalities is proposed: manual (the one that exists today), mixed electronic (voting is done on a machine at the voting station), remote electronic (from external devices to the polling station) and early. This is basically including technology when voting.
Another change is that biometrics will be established “so that the dead do not continue to vote in Colombia.”
“The citizen with the fingerprint will demonstrate at the polling station that it is he who is going to vote, because today many show up with false identification cards or the dead end up voting, ”explained Congressman Julio César Triana, another of the speakers.
Triana added that another change is that transportation on election day will be provided by the State, “so that it does not end up serving the political machines as it happens today.”
The reform also eliminates the registration periods for cédulas and establishes a scheme in which the State places the citizen at the polling station according to their residence address.
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