The President of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, reiterated that there is freedom, independence and sovereignty in the country, so interference cannot be allowed.
This was stated after the intervention of Ambassador Samuel Moncada in Parliament, where he presented a Research paper demonstrating US interference in the recent presidential elections of last July 28th.
“What we have seen today from Ambassador Samuel Moncada is far from being a piece of political opinion, it is the product of hours of work searching in “original sources, mainly sources from those who were the protagonists and set up this whole farce,” he explained, stating that in the country the only institution capable of counting votes is the National Electoral Council.
“We have to defend our institutions, say that no busybodies come here, here there are Public Powers, a Constitution and decent people, worthy scientists like Samuel Moncada who has just demonstrated the magnitude of the farce that was attempted to be perpetrated (…) Here there is freedom, independence and sovereignty, shove your USAID, your busybodies and your farce wherever it fits, here there is decency and a president elected on July 28, his name is Nicolás Maduro.”
Quick counts
He also referred to the quick counts and said, “We saw those quick counts on the night of July 28, and curiously the quick count occurred at the same time that the cyber attack against the transmission of the CNE results had intensified.
In this regard, he explained that “when there are manual voting systems, quick counts are imposed as a preliminary result, but in the case of Venezuela, quick counts under normal conditions are ineffective, because the transmission of the machines is faster than the quick count, and that was the reason why they published false data.
Rodriguez also asked why, if they claimed victory, they did not take the minutes to the Supreme Court of Justice?
Technical expertise
Rodríguez said that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which has promoted several conspiratorial actions against Venezuela, is the main financier of the Carter Center, an organization that participated as an observer in the recent presidential elections, and that ignored the corresponding results.
In this regard, he argued that, unlike the participation of the US electoral organization during the recall referendum of President Hugo Chavez in August 2004, in which it participated directly in the examination of the minutes, it did not do so on this occasion.
In this regard, Rodriguez asked why the Carter Center did not ask for a technical expert opinion on the elections, and responded: “It did not ask for it because it was part of the farce, part of the fraud.”
He commented that there are “people who say that the elections should be repeated and, in this sense, he said: Why were they not repeated in Brazil or in the United States?
Finally, he requested that Moncada’s research work be disseminated, in accordance with the standards for research in social sciences and history, as well as that a book be produced by the National Assembly’s publishing fund for distribution.
