Controversy in the municipality of Curumaní. A lawyer aspiring to the merit contest to elect municipal representative reported that the municipal councilors had demanded around $30 million to appoint him as representative, which Otherwise they would lower their grade.
EL PILÓN was aware of the complaint. The complaining lawyer, Andrés Giovanny Niñoassured in the letter presented to the authorities, that he occupied the first position on the list of candidates who presented the interview before the Council.
HISTORY
The process had been directed by the Higher School of Public Administration (ESAP). The first stage of the competition had a weighted value of 90% of the total and the results of the interview that the councilors would do 10%.
Robert Fabián Rosado was elected representative. Lawyer Andrés Giovanny Niño sued and asked that his election be declared null and void, and in turn denounced that some councilors irregularly changed the results of the interview.
“On the part of the plaintiff, different threats and financial requests have been made known in exchange for obtaining a favorable score in the interview qualification or if he does not agree, a negative qualification would be granted.
circumstance to which I did not agree,” he noted in one of the points of the lawsuit.
According to the plaintiff, at the end of the interview, he went from position to position saying goodbye to the councilors. “When saying goodbye to each of the councilors, I observed the qualifications of each one, where there were 2 scores of 100/100, one of 96/100 and the other scores averaged 70 points”, he adds in his complaint.
And he says: “Days after the interview I received a call from a number that I marked as “private”, informing that I had won the contest for municipal representative of Curumaní, but to take office I had to hand over the sum of 30 million pesos, which they They could change the test results if they wanted, to which I refused.”
“THE RESULTS CHANGED”
The lawyer maintains that, given his refusal, the day the results were published it became evident that the score had changed, so he requested the test qualification forms in order to compare the scores.
“The Municipal Council of Curumaní refused to give me the forms, which is why I had to file a protection action, but they delayed delivering them and I was only given a response on January 11 (…) Of the 2 scores of 100, Only one remained, the score of 96 had disappeared and the other scores that averaged 70 points decreased by half, evidencing an alteration of the electoral documents, which was evident in the signature of some forms that did not coincide with the signature of others. formats,” he said.
The complaint is already in the Valledupar Provincial Attorney’s OfficeHowever, they have not requested or informed about the start of an investigation, according to Niño.
THE DEFENSE
EL PILÓN contacted the defense of the Municipal Councilwho issued a “profound statement in accordance with the law demonstrating the legitimacy of the electoral process carried out between the ESAP and the Council of Curumaní.”
Regarding the point that the qualifications changed, the councilors’ defense argued that official information was never sent to them with a qualification other than the final one in the contest, in this sense, “it is understood that said record could only be obtained in two ways: surreptitiously adulterating the originals by an actor interested in hindering the election or said documents could have been created falsely.”
On the other hand, the defense stressed that the lawyer Andrés Giovanny Niño Caballero has shown “to be constantly complaining about a plurality of competitions in the region, in most cases because his specific claims are not granted.”
And they close by pointing out that the documents provided by the plaintiff, on which assertions inherent to alleged changes in qualifications are based, “are unknown by the corporation, since the only authentic ones are those sent officially to the plaintiff upon his request, under unrestricted compliance with the current provisions.” For this reason, they considered that any document contrary to the official response could be false.