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Judi Lynn

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Mon May 26, 2014, 12:40 AM May 2014

Ex-congressman arrested after voting in Colombia’s presidential elections

Ex-congressman arrested after voting in Colombia’s presidential elections
May 25, 2014 posted by Daniel Medendorp

Investigators from the Prosecutor General’s Office have arrested an ex-congressman at a voting booth in the central Colombian state of Santander over alleged paramilitary ties.

National newspaper El Tiempo reported that ex-congressman Didier Tavera, with the Citizen’s Option Party (Opción Ciudadana), was arrested in the capital Bucaramanga of the Santander state by Technical Investigation Team (CTI) agents, the investigatory branch of the prosecutor general’s office.

Tavera had four arrest warrants from the criminal chamber of the Colombian Supreme Court for aggravated conspiracy and homicide, reports national newspaper El Espectador. Additionally, a 2012 report from the Electoral Observation Mission (MOE) shows that Tavera was under investigation for parapolitics.

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Citizen’s Option Party

Tavera’s Citizens’ Option (OC) was originally called Citizens’ Convergence (Convergencia Ciudadana), a party in the governing coalition of Uribe (2002-2010). Following the arrest of the majority of its political leaders over the help they had received from death squads to get elected int0 Congress, the party was renamed the National Integration Party (Partido de Integracion Nacional – PIN). The imprisoned Congressmen were replaced by family members or close political allies and received a surprising 8.4% of the votes in the 2010 Congressional election.

http://colombiareports.co/ex-congressman-arrested-way-voting-booth/

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