After Nicolás Maduro asked the Supreme Court of Justice to conduct an expert appraisal of the election results released on July 28, Jennie K. Lincoln, analyst for Latin America at the Carter Center and leader of the delegation that went to Venezuela on election day, said that what the Executive should do is demand transparency from the CNE in the dissemination of complete voting data, table by table.
The Carter Center, organization The international media that observed the presidential elections questioned the independence of the expert opinion that President Nicolás Maduro requested on July 31 before the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) regarding the electoral process that took place on July 28 and in which, according to the National Electoral Council (CNE), he emerged the winner.
Jennie K. Lincoln, a Latin America analyst for the Carter Center and leader of the delegation that went to Venezuela, in a telephone interview with AP, doubted that an independent evaluation would be made. She stressed that Maduro does not need to resort to the Supreme Court but rather demand transparency from the CNE in the dissemination of complete voting data, table by table.
“They have the ability to do that. They don’t need the Supreme Court. What they need is to do their duty, which they can do and have done in past elections,” he added.
On the evening of July 30, the party issued a statement saying that the election did not meet international parameters and standards of electoral integrity.
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Maduro on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to conduct an expert assessment of the results of the presidential election that gave him victory, after three days of complaints about a lack of transparency and international pressure.
The president, who was seeking re-election for a third six-year term and was declared the winner without the details of the votes being publicly available, said he is willing to show the full voting records.
This is Maduro’s first concession to the claims of recent days against the Venezuelan authorities for lack of transparency in the elections, questioned by international organizations and by leaders of the region, including his allies the Colombian Gustavo Petro and the Brazilian Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
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