MADRID, Spain.- The Panel of Electoral Experts of the United Nations Organization (UN) published on the night of Tuesday, August 13, a report preliminary in which it indicates that the management of results by the National Electoral Council (CNE) of Venezuela During the July 28 elections, which declared President Nicolás Maduro the winner, the government did not comply with the “basic requirements of transparency and integrity” necessary to guarantee credible elections.
The four experts, who were in Venezuela from late June to August 2, stressed that the CNE has not published any detailed results to support the announcements of the victory of Ripe.
The four-page document details that “the results management process by the CNE “The report failed to comply with basic transparency and integrity measures that are essential for the conduct of credible elections. It also failed to follow national legal and regulatory provisions, and all established deadlines were missed.” In the report, the experts stress that, in their experience, “the announcement of an election result without the publication of its details or the disclosure of tabulated results to the candidates is unprecedented in contemporary democratic elections.”
The UN panel highlighted that the lack of transparency has negatively affected the electorate’s confidence in the result announced by the CNE. In particular, the experts mentioned that the CNE has not published the voting records, which are essential paper evidence and are part of the protocols to safeguard transparency. These records contain security elements such as QR codes and unique signatures, which, according to the report, make them “very difficult to falsify.”
The CNE also stated that there was a cyber attack on election day that delayed the flow of information, but later cancelled the audits that would have clarified these alleged breaches. The document also points out that the contest was not held on equal terms, as the government campaign “dominated the state media” and there were prohibitions on the participation of some political figures.
An example is the case of the former deputy Maria Corina Machadowho won the opposition primaries in October, but could not register as a presidential candidate due to an illegal disqualification. After this impediment, the opposition tried to nominate the academic Corina Yoris, who was also rejected. Finally, the opposition parties selected the former ambassador Edmundo González Urrutia, who, according to the voting data uploaded by the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), would have defeated Maduro in the elections.
The UN Panel of Experts concluded that it will continue to monitor the elections in Venezuela, in particular the complaints and appeals, and announced that it will publish a more extensive report on the process in the near future.
The Venezuelan regime was quick to decline The government rejected the preliminary report of the UN panel of experts, accusing it of “spreading lies” and violating agreements with the Electoral Power by publishing it ahead of time. According to the government, the panel had access to all phases of the process and the report is part of a “propaganda” that serves the “Venezuelan far-right.” Caracas stated that this “attack against democracy” will fail and the will of the Venezuelan people will prevail.
According to the Chavista regime, Maduro obtained 51.95% of the votes in the elections on Sunday, July 28, while Edmundo González only obtained 43.18%.
The opposition, which has managed to gather 81% of the voting records, currently public in a web page for review by citizens and independent organizations, says that González Urrutia far surpassed Maduro by almost 40% of the votes. Dozens of countries have recognized González Urrutia as the president-elect, or have otherwise demanded the presentation of the electoral records in proper conditions.
Popular protests in opposition to Maduro have been repressed by the regime’s authorities with such violence that they have already have cost the lives of more than twenty people and around 2,000 have been imprisoned.
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