The top of the Nationwide Electoral Council (CNE) in Venezuela, Juan Carlos Delpino, introduced in a statement revealed on Monday a sequence of irregularities in the course of the July 2024 presidential elections in Venezuela, questioning the electoral course of and the integrity of the introduced outcomes.
“Every thing that occurred earlier than, throughout and after the presidential election, factors to the seriousness of the dearth of transparency and veracity of the introduced outcomes”, he mentioned.
Juan Carlos Delpino began his assertion by specifying that severe irregularities occurred after the closing of the polling stations. These embody violating the precept of fairness and failing to look at the voters’ proper to entry the voting information following the eviction of opposition witnesses in the course of the closing of some polling stations.
Moreover, Delpino asserted that the transmission of the outcomes didn’t adjust to the protocols which dictate that the transmission ought to happen instantly after the closing of the polling stations. As an alternative, the transmission of the outcomes was interrupted and delayed as a consequence of an alleged cyberattack. He additionally added that though he was the rector of the CNE, he wasn’t knowledgeable of the assault till late within the day, exactly at 9 PM.
Moreover, Delpino criticized the dearth of well timed publication of the elections’ outcomes desk by desk inside 48 hours. He added that Venezuelan authorities didn’t permit the time period of the interval of 30 days acknowledged in Article 125 of the regulation of electoral processes (LOPRE) to run, which affected the chain of belief of the audit and generated uncertainty. Article 125 states that the CNE orders the publication of the outcomes of the electoral processes within the Electoral Gazette inside 30 days following the proclamation of the elected candidates.
Within the second a part of his assertion, Delpino recalled the irregularities that preceded the vote. These embody the exclusion of events that had obtained excessive percentages of votes in earlier elections from collaborating within the elections, the absence of conferences of the CNE and imposed restrictions that considerably restricted the registration and updating of information of residents inside and outdoors Venezuela that the CNE was not conscious of.
The rector of the CNE additional defined that due to these irregularities, he didn’t attend the announcement of the primary bulletin within the totalization room. Due to this fact, he acknowledged that he lacked proof to help the introduced electoral outcomes. Delpino additionally declined the president of the CNE’s invitation to attend the proclamation ceremony.
Delpino’s assertion comes one month after the controversial July 28 presidential elections, when Nicolas Maduro was introduced as President of Venezuela. Nevertheless, the opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez and his supporters contested these outcomes and questioned the elections’ integrity. This resulted in nationwide protests from each the supporters of Maduro and Gonzalez.
The EU additionally expressed its issues over the electoral course of in Venezuela’s elections and a number of other European international locations called on the CNE to publish all of the voting information.
The nation’s supreme courtroom validated the electoral outcomes and ratified Nicolas Maduro as President of Venezuela. However, opposition figures, together with Gonzalez, rejected the courtroom’s ruling and vowed to pursue to problem the introduced outcomes.
Source / Picture: jurist.org
