The Programmatic Director of Initiatives with the Political System and State of Transparency for Colombia, Sandra Martínez, revealed that to date none of the presidential candidates are recording their income and expenses on time.
He explained that this exercise consists of analyzing the information reported by the campaigns in the application Cuentas Claras, of the National Electoral Council, from an exercise of citizen control.
He stressed that three weeks before the presidential elections, revenues totaling $16,585,278,500 have been reported and expenses corresponding to $9,267,895,511.
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According to the law, the financing of the campaigns should be preponderantly state and what has been recorded is that financing is mostly private, coming from loans from the financial sector.
The report reveals that electoral propaganda is the largest expenditure reported and concentrates 86.5% of the total, which means that the eight presidential candidates have preferred to use resources of private origin.
He also points out that in light of the data, it seems that the applications are not registering in real time the income and expenses what they are incurring.
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This analysis indicates that the presidential candidates who most have reported expenses are Gustavo Petro, followed by Rodolfo Hernández and Sergio Fajardo.
The expenses reported by the candidate of the Historic Pact Gustavo Petro until last Wednesday were $6,123,734,899, followed by Rodolfo Hernández with $1,490,647,284 and Sergio Fajardo with $798,502,006.
For its part, presidential candidate John Milton Rodríguez has had expenses during his campaign of $378,504,480, Federico Gutiérrez Zuluaga $362,124,372, Ingrid Betancourt $81,288,636 and finally the candidate Luis Pérez with $19,711,044.
