Bogotá After exercising his right to vote in the Plaza de Bolívar, the Minister of National Defense, Luis Carlos Villegas, planted the Unified Command Checkpoint of the 'Plan Democracia 2018', on security for elections throughout the country, in the strategic room of the National Police.
"The report is absolutely calm. We only have nine tables that are currently being planted in the rural area of Francisco Pizarro (Nariño), whose potential is 208 voters, "the Minister revealed.
In the same way, Villegas said that: "The 164 thousand members of the Public Force deployed are on their sites. There are no difficulties in that sense. There have been no acts of organized armed groups against this electoral process and there is a decrease of 60 percent of violent acts against the electoral sector, compared to 2014.
In matters of public order, the head of the defense portfolio said that in 2014 there were 35 acts of public order, of which 23 were committed by the FARC and 12 by the ELN: "So far, we have only 11, that is, a decrease of almost two thirds in this matter ".
In terms of incidents, that is, damage to fences, computer theft, cell phone theft in political offices, etc., Minister Villegas said that "in this we have had an increase, but fortunately the National Police has been able to intervene in the most of those facts recovering the material, the equipment and putting at the put into custody of justice those who have committed them ".
"They are elections, which, as the President of the Republic has said, today they do not have the presence of the main threat that surrounded them for 50 years, which were the Farc, and which today are, on the contrary, participants in these elections" .
Source: Ministry of National Defense.
