In a broadcast on social media, President Gustavo Petro gave the floor to citizens who, after studying publicly accessible documents regarding the election, exposed various anomalies concerning the procedures used on June 31.

Among other issues, they pointed out that hundreds of thousands of the analyzed electoral documents lacked metadata and none bore a cryptographic signature—contrasting with the verifiable model used in 2022.

The analysis suggests that controls regarding the identification, authenticity, integrity, and digital traceability of E-14 forms (official polling station tally sheets) may have been altered, thereby hindering citizen verification of the correspondence between physical ballots and digital results.

Issues were also raised regarding non-compliance with a 2018 ruling by the Plenary Chamber of the Council of State, which had ordered a software change to ensure the system could not be modified from either inside or outside the country; furthermore, concerns were voiced regarding the fact that the software is owned by a private company, preventing citizen oversight or audits.

Petro concluded that the “electoral fraud” was orchestrated using “foreign funds,” implying a loss of national sovereignty.

“Colombia’s entire Constitution collapses, and we become a colony as of 3:00 PM on Friday (the day of the presidential inauguration). We have lost 250 years of independent history,” he stated.

He suggested that the country would effectively be governed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with “significant influence from the United States government”—countries he accuses of interfering in the election outcome.

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