In the morning hours of August 26, the National Electoral Council (CNE) issued a statement in which it reported that it will abide by the decision of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) in which it urges it to publish the final results of the process held on July 28.
The National Electoral Council (CNE) reactivated its website on Monday, August 26, 29 days after the presidential elections were held, in which, at the time of announcing Nicolás Maduro as the winner, it denounced that the system was the object of an alleged hacking attempt; however, in the evening hours a “new attack against the dissemination centers” was reported that disabled it.
According to information from the state channel, Venezolana de Televisión (VTV), the attack against the website was identified as “denial of service, the objective of which is to saturate telecommunications links, in order to affect access to the website.”
It also explains that a thorough analysis made it possible to determine that the attacks supposedly “come from IP addresses located abroad, which indicates that this is an attack directed from outside the country.”
CNE technical staff is working to mitigate the effects of the attack and restore service as soon as possible.
Although the governing body had enabled its web portal earlier in the day, it had not yet released the results of the elections broken down table by table and entity by entity, as requested by the political sectors to clarify the controversy that arose after the opposition, led by María Corina Machado, rejected the results.
On the morning of August 26, the governing body issued a statement in which it announced that it will abide by the decision of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) in which it urges it to publish the final results of the process held on July 28.
On August 22, the Supreme Court of Justice validated the electoral results given by the CNE between July 29 and August 2. In a ruling, read by the magistrate and president of the Chamber Caryslia Beatriz Rodríguez, the highest court ratified a “massive cyber attack against the electoral system” and the results of the “final report” delivered on August 20 by the experts hired by the TSJ for this purpose.
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On August 2, the CNE announced the second bulletin of the elections. The results showed President Nicolás Maduro as the reelected candidate with 6,408,844 votes (51.95%) while Edmundo González Urrutia obtained 5,326,104 votes in his favor (43.18%).
Since the CNE announced the results in general, the opposition leadership has demanded the disaggregated publication of the data as established by law and as has always been done. The international community joined the opposition’s request, considering that the credibility and transparency of the process depend on the publication of the minutes.
On July 29 and 30, protests were held across much of the country in rejection of the results given by the CNE in the early hours of July 29. The demonstrations left more than twenty dead and at least 2,200 arrested. The government of Nicolás Maduro claimed that it was a plan led by the dissidents to attack the country and try to seize power.
The opposition, meanwhile, accused the government of Nicolás Maduro of escalating repression following the alleged victory that Machado and other leaders say was obtained by the candidate of the Unitary Platform, Edmundo González Urrutia.
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