The Unitary Platform warned this Saturday that they are trying to create a procedure before the TSJ to certify non-existent or secret minutes with the results of the elections of July 28. They stressed that Edmundo González Urrutia, with the minutes of the witnesses, has proven “his resounding victory”
The Unitary Platform issued a statement on the afternoon of Saturday, August 1, following the TSJ’s ruling regarding the process it is carrying out regarding the results of the presidential elections of July 28.
In this regard, the alliance of democratic opposition parties that nominated Edmundo González Urrutia stated: “Keeping and safeguarding the copies or copies of the minutes of the scrutiny that the witnesses received at the voting tables is an irrefutable right for each candidate, and with it Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia has proven its resounding victory in the presidential elections.”
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— Venezuela Unit (@unidadvenezuela) August 10, 2024
The president of the Electoral Chamber and also of the TSJ, Carysla Rodríguez, said this Saturday that González Urrutia incurred in contempt by not attending the court summons or presenting any electoral material.
On August 7, González Urrutia argued for his decision not to appear before the Supreme Court: “If I were to appear before the Electoral Chamber, I would do so in a situation of absolute defenselessness, because the procedure carried out by the Electoral Chamber, as announced by the media, does not correspond to any legal procedure contemplated in the Organic Law of the TSJ and another law on electoral jurisdiction.”
The Platform also warned that an attempt is being made to create a “procedure” before the TSJ to generate a way to “certify” results issued from non-existent and/or secret minutes, and without disaggregating results by table. They denounced that this would be intended to deprive participants of copies of the minutes of the scrutiny, “the only evidence they have that guarantees the transparency of the electoral process.”
The democratic opposition stressed that, in a State of law, the judiciary must be the guarantor of people’s rights against abuse of power, and “not a mechanism used to further undermine them.”
Similarly, the democratic opposition stated that “the Electoral Chamber of the TSJ is called upon to jurisdictionally control the decisions adopted by the CNE, after filing the appeals contemplated in the legal system, but it can never be used to prevent the CNE from carrying out fundamental stages of the electoral process, linked to the auditability of election results.”
They ratified the demand for a total supported by minutes “to which the parties can have access, to carry out the respective verifications or contrasts, based on the copies obtained, in accordance with the law, by the witnesses of the candidate political organizations.”
At this point, the opposition once again recognises “the hard work of the polling station witnesses, who despite the obstacles, were able to collect more than 80% of the voting records.”
The Unitary Platform reiterated that, 13 days after the presidential elections, the CNE has not issued the results of the presidential elections in accordance with the Constitution and the law.
“The total and the subsequent proclamation of the winner in the presidential elections must be based on the results obtained in each voting table, supported, in turn, by the minutes of the scrutiny that are available to the participating candidates (Article 120 of the Organic Law of Electoral Processes),” the opposition stressed.
In the statement, the Unitary Platform also pointed out that the electoral process includes subsequent audits “that have been interrupted by the CNE without any justification.” At this point, the coalition indicated that these audits are part of the electoral schedule and the guarantees that the electoral body must give to the participants.
“It is unacceptable that the procedure underway before the CNE be curtailed in order to place under the cloak of opacity some alleged results that are not audited or disaggregated by polling station,” they emphasized.
In turn, they thanked the statement from the governments of Brazil, Colombia and Mexico, calling for an impartial verification of the results “in which popular sovereignty is respected. The democratic countries of the world have expressed themselves in the same direction.”
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