A total of 35 political forces are contending the Sunday elections, and more than 120,000 Army servicemen are providing as part of the Ayacucho Operational Campaign Plan.

In the midst of this electoral context, there was an arson attack yesterday against the Registrar’s Office in the municipality of Gamarra, department of Cesar, where an official was killed and four people were injured.

According to the Minister of the Interior, Luis Fernando Velasco, the attack took place allegedly because a group of citizens disagreed with the disqualification of a candidate.

Velasco described such actions as unusual, and assured that they have identified the person who lit the fire, while the intellectual authors are being investigated.

For his part, President Gustavo Petro stressed that Colombian society has the historical experience of the passion that elections and politics unleash on voting dates, and the way these passions have been used to unleash violence.

He assured that all the national territory, contrary to what the opposition predicted a few weeks ago, was ready for the electoral day.

If the so-called Government of Change wins a good part of the posts in competition this Sunday, it will have to accelerate the scope and impact of the public policies established in the Government’s Plan for National Development.

This Plan is made up of five major projects: Human Right to Food, Territorial Ordering around Water, Human Security, Productive Economy for Life and Fight against Climate Change, and Regional Convergence.

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