Illegal rifle Bello. The secretaries of dispatch and heads of decentralized institutions of the municipality of Bello are distributing ballots among their officials, marked with their own names to collect resources in order to finance a political party in this town.
These are tickets to participate in a raffle that has as a prize a car and the value of each one is 300 thousand pesos, for the Conservative Party of that locality of the north of the Valley of Aburra (nickname for the Medellin zone)
John Fredy Hoyos, president of the Association of Departmental and Municipal Public Servants of Antioquia-Adea, was the one who described how this movement is being carried out, since this denunciation came to the union from several secretariats and decentralized institutes like the hospital itself, where according to The complaint to the officials are distributing marked ballots and the amount that they deliver is governed according to the salary, between 1 and 3 ballots.
"Hoyos also assures that this alleged irregularity is happening in working hours and is made by officials who have hierarchy and work teams or subordinates"
According to the complainant, "CALL A MEETING IN THE SECRETARIES, AND AT THE MEETING DELIVER THE BALLOTS AND INCLUSIVE TO COLLECT THE FEES, BECAUSE SOME FOR THE HIGH VALUE THEY HAVE TO PAY FOR QUOTES. SOME OF THEM REPRESENT THE HALF OF THEIR EARLY WAGE. THE DIFFICULTY IS THAT THEY ARE CONTRAVINING THE CODE OF INDICATING DONATIONS ON BEHALF OF THIRD PARTIES; NO OFFICIAL COULD BE LIABLE FOR ANY CAUSE "
Although it is true that the purchase of the ballot is not mandatory, employees could be or feel pressured to acquire it because it could depend on the continuity or extension of the labor contract, and consequently some have had to keep the ballots.
Speaking of the raffle itself, in this ticket office does not see the support of the entity Coljuegos and therefore that raffle would be illegal or at least so says who denounced the fact:
"Is a raffle, and in Colombia they are regulated, they would be committing crimes because they do not pay taxes and must have a permit of Coljuegos, without that authorization that is a crime" ... or is there any complicity or special "prejudice on their part?
... stated Hoyos.
Finally, the president of the Conservative Party of Antioquia and ex-senator, Gabriel Zapata Correa, indicated that municipal directories have autonomy to seek their resources, with actions protected by law, because they are needed to pay employees, offices and others.
"We have not received the complaint at all. We respect that everything is under the established legal norms the decisions that the municipal directories take, must be all in the light of the legality, in the light of the statutes of the parties and in the light of what the law allows ", affirmed the Former Congresswoman Correa.
