Prosecutor Tarek William Saab explained that there will be a deployment of 1,236 officials from the Public Ministry, including national, provisional and auxiliary prosecutors for the presidential elections on July 28. “They will be attentive 24 hours a day on Sunday to everything that happens in real time, any circumstance that aims to hinder the event.”
The attorney general appointed by the defunct constituent assembly, Tarek William Saab, warned on Tuesday 23 that those who announce the results of the presidential elections before the CNE will incur an electoral crime.
“There is only one electoral power here, as there is anywhere else in the world (…) The CNE is the only one that can issue the electoral results. Whoever does so outside of that Constitution, outside of that legal competence, knows that they are committing a crime,” the prosecutor told several media outlets.
The Organic Law of Electoral Processes, in its Article 83, prohibits the dissemination of election results “through any means of social communication before the National Electoral Council issues its first official bulletin.” The body can order the National Telecommunications Commission (Conatel) to interrupt the signal.
The Law also provides for fines (art. 232) of between five thousand and seven thousand tax units for anyone who violates the prohibition.
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Saab also explained that there will be a deployment of 1,236 officials from the Public Ministry, including national, provisional and auxiliary prosecutors for the presidential elections on July 28. “They will be attentive 24 hours a day on Sunday to everything that happens in real time and any circumstance that aims to hinder the event.”
In the Venezuelan presidential elections, which will be held this Sunday, July 28, there are 10 candidates, including the ruler Nicolás Maduro, who aspires to a second re-election of his mandate; the diplomat Edmundo González Urrutia (MUD); the university professor Antonio Ecarri (Alianza del Lápiz); the former evangelical pastor Javier Bertucci (El Cambio); the deputy Luis Eduardo Martínez (AD judicialized); the businessman Benjamín Rausseo (Conde); the former mayor Daniel Ceballos (Arepa Digital); the former deputy José Brito (Primero Venezuela); the former rector of the CNE Enrique Márquez (Centrados) and Claudio Fermín (Soluciones).
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