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diego camacho

I share the same idea as my colleague that the vote is a good democratic mechanism, but when it comes to execution, it is very evident that the greatest influences in the country wield a lot of power, transforming such a beautiful practice, which is to go out and vote for a maximum corruption act. .

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Personally, I believe that the method of citizen participation that has been most violated today has been the Vote and also the peace agreement.
The vote because it has been strongly evidenced that corruption has been a great factor for this to happen, since the annulment of votes and the favoring of parties damages and interrupts this method of citizen participation.
And in a peace agreement, because although there was an agreement between both parties and they were left with some commitments that they were going to fulfill on both sides, on the part of those involved or the armed groups there was no positive change, and they continued to make his

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Derly Alejandra Orozco.
The method of participation that has been violated for years in Colombia has been the Vote.  Since for many years in the different elections the vote of many Colombians has been unfairly altered or annulled, many tests have been shown throughout the country that confirm this, thus violating the right of Colombians to a "democratic" country as shown by the Political Constitution of Colombia.

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The most vulnerable mechanism in my opinion is the effect of the vote, the people decide in a plebiscite by the majority of the electoral sense.  There are people who of their own free will decide whether or not to participate in an event and quite another is that a third party and worse still, the State, whoever deprives them of doing so, also sometimes people are not counted their vote for preferences to candidates and they don't count them or they omit them for no reason and when these electoral events happen all these facts come to light and these cases go unpunished as usually happens in Colombia.

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The violation of the vote in Colombia, a case that does not end. -Luisa Corrales

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The violation of the vote in Colombia, a case that does not end. -Luisa Corrales

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In Colombia, the method of participation that has been violated is the vote. In 2014, the ombudsman Jorge Armando Otálora said that 166 complaints had been reported to the Immediate Reaction Unit for Electoral Transparency (Uriel), throughout the country. national territory, The complaints are mainly related to violation of the electoral propaganda regime, voter corruption and participation in politics by public officials, for which four people have been captured, according to the report. But it also tells us that it is a very positive balance compared to 2010.

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The vote is one of the most violated mechanisms of participation in Colombia because in each electoral process, candidates in their campaigns often resort to vote buying, through markets for low-income families or money, this affects the proper process of voting to obtain a transparent result, likewise, Within the institutions in charge of the counting and processing of votes they commit corruption within the same, for the same reason, there are inconformities in a process that should guarantee transparency, an example of this are the last legislative elections in Colombia, where the party of the historical pact demanded a recount of votes because they would be losing seats in the senate.

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Here in Colombia in the presidency of Juan Manuel Santos there was a peace dialogue where the government made peace with the FARC and where there was a plebiscite where they did not take into account since the votes of the citizens that clearly was no and what they overlooked and carried out this peace agreement, they are clearly violating one of the citizen participation mechanisms.

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In my opinion and in the years that I have been living in this country, one of the participation mechanisms that has been most violated is in 2016 when President Juan Manuel Santo called a plebiscite on the peace agreements that were being lived in Colombia in those times, asking the citizens if they agreed to carry out this peace process or not. At the end of the plebiscite, the no vote won, the citizens opted not to carry out this peace process, because the citizens opted not to carry it out was because the necessary confidence was not given to the country so that support this peace process. After all, the government of President Santos did not take into account the opinion of the citizenry and continued with the peace process, which today can be said to be a fact, but without meeting the expectations of Colombian citizens.

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The chosen mechanism was the vote.
In voting we can see that our right to citizen participation is violated when we see several problems of how close people get to voting and it seems to them that they have already done this because of the corruption that exists and what they pay the people to fill out votes without the consent of the people, thus violating our right to democracy and to be able to participate in the public decisions that are submitted for their consideration, in order to conform the institutions of the State, to form the political will and maintain the democratic system.

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One of the citizen participation mechanisms that has been violated over the years is the vote. There are many other mechanisms that have been violated, but I think that the case that has been seen the most is this. We see and witness moments of corruption every time there are election days, the candidates with more money buy votes, do illegal things with the identification cards of different people. One of these cases occurred in 2011 in the Atlantic, two people were arrested for crimes against mechanisms of democratic participation, 24 citizenship cards and 27 registration forms were seized.

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In 2014 Jorge Armando Otalora, the people defensor received more than 166 complaints about how the people couldn’t practice their right to vote and the participation of public servers in the voting activities, and that’s clearly forbidden, in 2010 voting scenes more than 350 public servers vote and the citizens claim that unconstitutional action. This situation keeps happening in Colombia in every voting term, the corruption in this country has incredibly increased and the democracy is put into hesitation, now a lot of us are wondering if in this voting to choose our new president, the things will be transparent and the final results for the candidate that the nation choose will be honest or if it will be modified to the convenience for the hush society in this country. In the latest voting term, to choose the senate and Congress the results were modified in the vote recount that some influential people asked for. The reality of this country hasn’t change, and the corruption is getting bigger, even that the citizen can’t practice the right of voting and this violation is made by the persons that are supposed to defend the citizens rights.

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Daniela Jalkh Velásquez-Popular consultation 

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Daniela Jalkh Velásquez-Popular consultation 

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One of the citizen participation mechanisms that has been violated in Colombia, took place on November 8, 2021; seven municipalities in the departments of Nariño and Cauca prepared to hold a popular consultation against the South African mining company AngloGold Ashanti, which would take place on December 19 of the same year. Several social processes, civil authorities, youth and leaders of the territory in the departments of Nariño and southern Cauca met to stop the activities of this South African mining company in the territory.

However, the violation of this mechanism is evident since, in fact, the peasant leaders who organized this popular consultation have received death threats, have been harassed and physically assaulted by the police authorities, and have been falsely accused of defending the interests of their communities and confront the development of mining activities.
In this case, the state violates the right by not allowing these consultations to take place in the municipalities, and prohibits people from voting.

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Anggi Ayala Ortiz - Revocation of the mandate

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Anggi Ayala Ortiz - Revocation of the mandate

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It is common knowledge that when mayors and governors serve one year of their mandate, they face the process of revocation of mandate already established in the constitution and in the laws that allows with a certain number of signatures and an electoral process to remove mayors elected by popular vote from their positions.

In times of pandemic, this has not been possible to carry out, since the Registry suspended the procedure until the Ministry of Health issues a concept on the collection of signatures. Due to this administrative decision, several citizens felt their right to choose and be elected violated, which forced them to file guardianships that were ruled against them.

According to the guardianships, the three plaintiffs wanted to order the Registry to deliver the forms for the process of collecting signatures, in case it was not possible to order that the signatures could be collected electronically. The arguments of the judges are forceful, and all have concepts from the Registry and the Ministry of Health. The three guardianships mentioned above were rejected. However, the electoral body emphasizes that this measure is temporary while the health portfolio establishes biosecurity protocols.
At the moment the Ministry of Health, denies the collection of signatures to carry out the revocation of mandate, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. It would only be carried out with the appropriate biosanitary measures and with the permission of the representative of each Municipio.

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Plebiscite
One of the first mechanisms that was carried out to approve the peace agreements in 2016 between the government and the guerrilla also involved the army' in this case the no won but just as badly the peace agreements were signed, they were not taken into account The decision of the people counts and in this way it was violated.

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The mechanism that I believe has been most violated in Colombia is the vote. As we already know we are in a country in which there have been several cases of corruption, one that is quite popular and has been known on several occasions, is the buying of votes, this act is not good at all, because this action damages democracy because it affects the accountability and responsibility of those who hold elected office, It limits the ability of citizens to freely elect their rulers and representatives, reverses the meaning of elections as instruments of political decision making, alters electoral results, promotes wrong incentives to elected candidates and generates excessive spending whose origin of the resources is illegal.
In the last elections of March 2022, there was a controversy in which the presidential pre-candidate Gustavo Petro, published in his twitter a comment about vote buying, he said: "Through all the networks you have available ask people that, if they are going to receive money from vote buyers, do it, but vote for Petro and for the Pact. It is time for change", this generated the rejection of many people. On March 13, the Minister of the Interior, Daniel Palacios, categorically rejected Gustavo Petro's statements and invited citizens to ignore these statements and, on the contrary, denounce vote buying.
Vote buying is a crime and must be denounced.

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One of the ways in which the mechanism of participation is violated is when in voting they give money for the change of a vote and irregular financing of resources is used in the campaign, that is, when illegal mechanisms are used to obtain money illustrative of this crime are the so-called indicative quotas or regional social investment items, it can be said that there is a violation of campaign expenses.

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Marian Sofia Sanchez-Plebiscite for peace

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Marian Sofia Sanchez-Plebiscite for peace

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6 years ago a historic day was experienced for the country. On October 2, 2016, the plebiscite for peace was voted, which would collect the opinion of Colombian citizens on the peace agreements signed between the government of former president Juan Manuel Santos and the former FARC guerrilla. Although the No was imposed, the Havana agreements were imposed via the Congress of the Republic.

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I believe that the citizen participation mechanism that has been violated against the Colombian people is the plebiscite, since, in 2016, precisely in the government of former President Juan Manuel Santos, a plebiscite was called on the peace agreements in which the people he had the power to decide between yes and no. If the yes won, it meant that the Colombians were in agreement with this process being carried out, but as a final result, the no ended up winning by a minimal difference.
The government, perceiving an imminent defeat, also considered that regardless of what was decided by the people, it was going to continue with the process and asked for a national pact of the political forces in favor of the agreement, which from my point of view seems to me to be a total mistake. since, the decision of all Colombians had to be respected and if that decision resulted in the rejection of the peace agreement, they had all the obligation to enforce the law, instead they decided to ignore it and ended up implementing what that the government wanted and the way it wanted.

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It is no secret that in Colombia a different right of the people is violated every day, but in this case I will give my opinion from the perspective of the mechanisms of citizen participation, more specifically, the revocation of the mandate. I am from Barrancabermeja, and in the period from 2014 to 2018 the city was led by Mayor Dario Echeverry, who throughout his term in office did not stop committing corrupt acts against the city. One of these examples is the sabotage of his mandate revocation, because in 2017 citizens got tired of the high level of poverty and unemployment in Barrancabermeja, so they decided to make the revocation to not allow Dario Echeverry to continue damaging the city and them. The mayor in charge at the time of this process chose to activate the law prohibiting the carrying of passengers on motorcycles, taking into account that 80 percent of the population of Barrancabermeja in the rural and urban areas travels by motorcycle, car, motorcycle tricycle or as a companion. For the Public Prosecutor's Office that limitation to mobility affected the democratic process with an abstention of citizenship due to the impossibility of mobilizing to the voting points, the respective inquiry was opened on this case and finding other evidence against the two of them, such as the payment of cash to bribe citizens and voters to vote NO, intimidation and threats to public officials, retention of ID cards, among others, being captured in 2018 for this.

Andrea María Castrillón Mendoza

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Liseth Patricia Castellanos Chaparro - the vote and the popular consultation

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Liseth Patricia Castellanos Chaparro - the vote and the popular consultation

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The mechanism of citizen participation that I feel has been violated to the Colombian people is the vote and the popular consultation, since in the vote we have seen cases where these are falsified and electoral frauds are committed, votes come from people who do not exist, because many times the number of votes is not equal to the number of people who went to vote, the same judges (bought by some politician) simply mark the votes for the remaining people who did not go to vote and pass them as if they had voted, thus winning the politician that nobody wanted and who was not even heard of, after this this this corruption and violation of the vote is put together. The same people, both from the government as well as ordinary people, let themselves be carried away by the politician who offers the best money to commit this act of corruption. The popular consultation has also been violated because it is not taken into account the decisions of the people for important issues of the municipality and department or if it comes to present the country, it does not take into account the voice of the people, their opinion or decisions, simply excluding the citizen of an important decision for the country, hide the information; taking themselves a "solution" for some important fact that affects the citizens, thus selling and selling the wealth of the people, damaging with their decisions to the people, making deals that do not favor the municipality, department and the country, giving everything to people who could destroy us or taking any decision that does not suit us to the people, simply because of the greed of the people with high positions, and even when these popular consultations are made, fraud is made so that the mayors, governors and other people involved can get some benefit from this, without caring about what the people have decided.

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A few years ago, in the government of Juan Manuel Santos, a plebiscite was called, where the peace agreement was proposed, thus inviting the Colombian population to vote if they approved or rejected it, in which the NO won, to which they duly the citizens did not give the go-ahead, but even so the president made the decision to give him the yes and sign it without taking into account the opinion of the population, and not only that case, it has been seen on many occasions

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In September 2016, after several years of negotiations, the government of Juan Manuel Santos and the FARC signed peace agreements. With the signing began the process of disarmament and demobilization of the oldest guerrilla in the American continent, founded in 1964. The popular endorsement of the agreements via plebiscite, scheduled for a few weeks later, was planned as the first step in the implementation schedule . Colombia and the world were surprised when on October 2 the No (rejection) exceeded the Yes (support)
Despite the results of the plebiscite, the peace process continued after the endorsement of the peace agreements through Congress. The defeat of the Yes reconfigured the national political landscape, politically strengthening the sectors that supported the No

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Adriana  Lucia Sanchez -Revocation of the mandate

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Adriana  Lucia Sanchez -Revocation of the mandate

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In various departments and municipalities of Colombia, especially in the department of Antioquia, several mandate revocations have been presented, none of them prospered, without positive results, since there was no response in any of the municipalities and departments, which allowed the continuity of the leaders, even with the dissatisfaction and discontent of the citizens. Based on the participation mechanisms, it is possible to observe the breach that is being caused in it. A clear example of this situation is when we are shown how only once out of 56 revocation calls has it been possible to comply with what is a revocation of the mandate, knowing that this measure has been in force for more than 26 years. This was the case of Mayor Nelson García Castellanos, who governed the municipality of Boyacá and after two years in office, became the first mayor to be revoked.

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 Juan Diego Fonseca: Plebiscite case in Colombia 

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 Juan Diego Fonseca: Plebiscite case in Colombia 

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In the case of Colombia, we have seen two plebiscites, analyzing the second held on October 2, 2016 we can see that it was violated one of the mechanisms of human participation when President Juan Manuel Santos asked Colombians directly whether or not they approved the peace agreements concluded in Havana between the current government and the FARC group, and the result is that it was denied, the proposal was rejected and although the decision of the people was clear, they did not take it into account, carrying out the peace agreements, setting aside the democratic exercise where the decisions taken by the convened collective are supposed to prevail.

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Colombia over time has been in internal conflict with several groups formed against the government, where one of those groups is the FARC that throughout its conformation has kidnapped, murdered and seized the land of the most defenseless people. In 2016, the state held a plebiscite where it asked the Colombian people if they agreed to the peace treaty that was being carried out with the FARC, the Colombians expressed their disagreement, thus winning the "NO", the government ignored the expressions and disagreements of the people and signed the peace treaty thus violating the citizen participation mechanism by holding a plebiscite and not complying with and respecting the opinions of the people.

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In 2016, the Colombian people were asked if they agreed to make a peace agreement with the armed group FARC, which was answered by a no in the plebiscite held in the same year. Here it is clearly observed that the rupture of the means of participation occurred, since, winning the no, the country decided to do the complete opposite and proceeded to sign the peace agreement

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Elaborated by Karen Vanessa Arias Guevara 

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Plebiscite on the peace agreements of Colombia 2016

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Plebiscite on the peace agreements of Colombia 2016

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n 2016 in Colombia, a plebiscite was held on the peace agreements, with the aim that citizens express their approval or rejection of the peace agreements between the government and the FARC, so the winning result in the voting was the “NO” but this agreement in all ways was established without taking into account that the result of the votes was “NO” to the signing of the agreement with the FARC, so the opinion of Colombians was not taken into account. Therefore, one of the citizen participation mechanisms that Colombians have was violated and in this way it is that the Colombian people do not trust the government since they did not take their opinion into account when they requested it.

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plebicite.
why I say that the plebicite because I remember that in 2016 president juan manuel santos carried out the plebicite on the peace agreements where the census of said plebicite had to give their opinion if they accepted or rejected it where the majority of the votes won the NO. and despite having won the no the president santos made certain changes in the agreement to finally make the agreement in favor of peace, ignoring the response of said plebicite.