00:00In this context, the National Electoral Council of Colombia has deployed the largest observation mission in its history.
00:07This deployment aims to ensure transparency in the presidential runoff schedule for Sunday, June 21st.
00:13Nearly 1,500 international delegates from 22 countries, together with more than 13,000 national election observers,
00:21will oversee the context in which the Alliance for Life candidate Iván Cepeda faces off against far-right candidate Abelardo
00:28de la Espriella.
00:29In order to counter disinformation campaigns, authorities have reaffirmed the strength of the technical safeguards of the electoral process.
00:38In this scenario, the National Register of Civil Status, Hernán Penagos, highlighted the work of the international observers,
00:45describing Colombia's electoral system as robust and highly capable.
00:56There is no country where an electoral authority is open to election missions.
01:02You all don't let me lie.
01:04No one of you, who with such openness we invite observers to simulations in by municipalities,
01:10allow them to come in and check the software and source codes,
01:14and verify that the polling records are at the polling stations.
01:20No other electoral system has been so transparent towards international observers,
01:25and we like to do it.
01:27We are encouraged to do that.
01:30So, this is the case, as the Colombian electoral system is a robust one,
01:35particularly given that, as some commenters have noted,
01:40the elections have proceeded smoothly on this occasion,
01:43facing the greatest challenge in many decades in our country.
01:48It's a system that has withstood every assault.
01:53This demonstrates the strength of Colombian democracy.
01:56The strength of Colombian democracy.
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