COLOMBIA: VOTERS REBUKE SCANDAL-TAINTED TRADITIONAL PARTIES IN COLOMBIA'S MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS

Record ID: 328639

  • Title: COLOMBIA: VOTERS REBUKE SCANDAL-TAINTED TRADITIONAL PARTIES IN COLOMBIA'S MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS
  • Date: 30th October 1994
  • Summary: BOGOTA, COLOMBIA (OCTOBER 30, 1994) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV COLOMBIA'S PRESIDENT ERNESTO SAMPER PIZANO GOING TO A VOTING TABLE. 0.09 2. SCU SAMPER VOTING. 0.21 3. GV SAMPER AND SON DEPOSITING THEIR BALLOTS. 0.25 4. GV CAMERAS AND REPORTERS. 0.26 5. GV SAMPER SAYING: "WE HOPE THAT WHEN THE SITUATION NORMALISES IN THESE MUNICIPALITIES, WE CAN HOLD ELECTIONS SO THAT THE PUBLIC MAY ELECT THEIR RESPECTIVE MAYORS, WHICH WOULD DEPEND ON THE ABSENCE OF INTIMIDATION OR FORMS OF CORRUPTION THAT HAS BEEN PRESENT IN SOME CASES." (SPANISH) 0.43 6. GV CANDIDATE ANTANAS MOCKUS ARRIVING AT VOTING PRECINCT 0.50 7. GV MOCKUS VOTING. 0.56 8. GV MOCKUS DEPOSITING BALLOT. 1.01 9. SCU CANDIDATE ANTANAS MOCKUS SAYING: "WHEN ONE IS CLEAR AS SO WHERE THEY WANT TO GO AND THE TIME IT SHOULD TAKE, CORRUPTION BECOMES VERY VISIBLE. ALSO PUBLIC SUPPORT HELPS A LOT." (SPANISH) 1.10 10. GV SECURITY AT VOTING PRECINCT. (2 SHOTS) 1.21 11. CU VOTING TABLE, JUDGES CHECKING IDENTIFICATION CARD 1.26 12. GV MAN VOTING. 1.35 13. GV PEOPLE CHECKING LISTS TO FIND OUT WHERE THEY HAVE TO VOTE 1.38 14. GV LIBERAL CANDIDATE ENRIQUE PENALOSA PLACING VOTE 1.48 15. GV PENALOSA SAYS GOODBYE TO VOTING JURY. 1.53 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
  • Embargoed: 14th November 1994 12:00
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  • Location: BOGOTA, COLOMBIA
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  • Country: Colombia LATIN AMERICA
  • Reuters ID: LVA8CQMN9E5OP4TJOEUJ6DKS6TLH
  • Story Text: Voters delivered a stinging rebuke to Colombia's scandal-tainted traditional parties in municipal elections on Sunday (October 30),voting for clerics, independents and eccentrics instead of career politicians.

    While placing his vote, Colombia's President, Ernesto Samper Pizano, called for an end to political corruption.

    The Liberals were humiliated in the capital, Bogota, where university philosopher Antanas Mockus swept into the mayor's office as an independent, crushing his Liberal opponent Enrique Penalosa by a margin of more than two to one.

    Mockus became famous last year when he lost his job as university rector after flashing his buttocks in front of a group of unruly students. During the elections, he astonished the country's political class by winning without recourse to traditional party machinery, endorsements from national political figures and big donations.

    Roman Catholic priests running as independents became mayors in the provincial capitals of Cucuta and Monteria and in the medium-sized towns of La Dorada and Sogamoso.


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