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85 international observers from 26 countries are following the voting process in Colombia. Enrique Correa, Chief of Observation of the Organization of American States, OAS, said this morning to Caracol Radio that the Electoral Oversight Mission has the responsibility to check that there is not judges vote theft, that the information boxes are really places for information and not for pressure over the voters and that at the end of the day the Colombian public opinion will have an efficient information of the results.
Semana, the polemic Colombian Magazine that follows especially the political events of its country, said in its digital edition at the beginning of the election day that it is the most exciting and exemplary presidential campaigns in the history of Colombia.
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The 2010 presidential elections in Colombia are without doubt among the most disputed one in the history of the Latin American country. The sudden appearance of Antanas Mockus as a big possibility to replace President Álvaro Uribe at the Nariño House is quit interesting in the country of the Magic Surrealism. It is probably certain that many were expecting an impacting success of any candidate from the Uribe’s political groups. It is also probably that Juan Manuel Santos was relaying in his alignment with President Uribe.
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It is already well known that the first Spanish country to open the gates to Facebook was Colombia. Then, it is likely to be that the first president of a country with a Facebook campaign might be Colombian. Surely, if the presidential candidate Antanas Mockus is elected president of the Colombians, he will be the first politician in the history of the world that did his campaign through the Internet.
Both men have a virtue that other candidates lack: they are not properly politicians in the Colombian way, but very practical. At the same time, young people like them. Their language is rather simple and their thought rather deep.
The names of Mockus and Fajardo came by surprise united in a single political program for the next Colombian elections. The former popular major of Medellín, Sergio Fajardo, resigned to his presidential candidacy and joined team with the former and also popular major of Bogotá, Antanas Mockus. The result was also unexpected: Mockus gained the second position in the preferences of votes according to the last surveys.
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