Reuters, 23/10 16:12 CET
By Anastasia Moloney
BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters
Foundation) – Murders on the campaign trail, reports of votes being
bought for $14 each and murky campaign financing threaten to undermine
the credibility of Colombia’s local elections, researchers say.
Colombians go to the polls on Sunday to elect 32 provincial governors, 1,101 city and town mayors, and councillors.
So far this year 20 people have been killed in
campaigning, mostly candidates running for mayor and councillor posts,
according to the Electoral Observation Mission (MOE), an independent monitoring group based in the capital Bogota.
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Source: Euronews
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