Bogotá, 19 Mar Former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe, founder of the Centro Democrático party, said Saturday that “the result” of the legislative elections “cannot be accepted” following the publication yesterday of the official Senate count that has caused controversy in the country. Uribe, whose party had 54,608 votes left in the ballot, criticized the fact that the leftist Historical Pact had nearly 400,000 votes added to those announced on Sunday after the close of the vote, as well as the numerous errors found in the E-14 forms, where electoral juries record votes. “These elections leave all mistrust. E-14 full of studs, amendments, mismatched signatures. Added to the inconsistencies is the overwhelming vote of Petrism (the Historical Pact) in drug trafficking zones. This result cannot be accepted,” the former president, who ruled Colombia between 2002 and 2010, said on Twitter. The E-14s to which Uribe refers are the forms that voting juries must fill out once they finish counting votes after the elections and are also the basis for the results of the pre-count. Sunday's preliminary count gave the Historical Pact 2,302,847 votes in the Senate, while the official results published by the Registrar on Friday, with 97% counted, awarded it 2,692,999, or 390,152 more votes, being the party with the greatest difference between the two figures. Projections show that with this result the Historical Pact can win 19 seats in the Upper House, three more than those won in Sunday's pre-count and would subtract one seat from the Conservative Party, which would be left with 15; the ruling Democratic Center and the Green Alliance-Esperanza Center Coalition, which would drop to 13 each. That is why the Democratic Center said in a statement on Friday that the situation of uncertainty generated by the inaccuracy of the results published to date by the Registrar's Office, is “unacceptable”, the entity that organizes the elections. “The inclusion of 948,283 votes (from all parties) in the counting phase goes beyond the variation between pre-counting and counting, which has historically been 0.5% and which on this occasion is more than 7%,” said the Uribista party. CRITICISM OF THE REGISTRY OFFICE AND NEW RECOUNT The main target of criticism of what happened is the national registrar, Alexander Vega, whose resignation is requested by representatives of various sectors of the Colombian political spectrum. “Whether because it was incompetent or because there were really serious alterations in the results of Congress, the registrar (...) must resign. The presidential elections need an ad hoc registrar and adjustments to be made as soon as possible,” said Catherine Juvinao, the elected House representative of the Green Alliance party. Gustavo Bolívar, who was the top of the list of the Historical Pact to the Senate and who with the triumph will maintain the seat he has in Congress, said that Uribism is implying that the left is the author of “fraud”, for which he asked the Registrar's Office to recount the votes. “The Democratic Center has been sowing tares that fraud comes from us (...) We are going to ask all parties to the National Electoral Council (CNE) to please order to open all the polls so that all the votes are counted again,” said Bolivar, who said that the Historical Pact will accept the result of a possible recount.