Súmate asked the current directorate of the CNE, chaired by the historian Pedro Calzadilla, to announce the date of the presidential elections in advance “as the predecessor governing body of the governing body of the Electoral power did.” They consider that if the CNE does not pronounce itself in the face of repeated suggestions by ruling party leaders to advance the elections, as Nicolás Maduro has done, it would disturb “the transparency of this electoral process.”
The civil association joinspecializing in electoral processes, warned this Tuesday, November 8, that the National Electoral Council (CNE) “should not hold elections on dates that do not correspond,” given the repeated suggestions of ruling party leaders to advance the presidential elections, scheduled for 2024.
The association recalled, in a statement, that according to the provisions of the Constitution and electoral laws, said presidential elections should be held in the last quarter of 2024, in order to facilitate the inauguration.
Regarding Nicolás Maduro’s announcement that the presidential elections could be brought forward to the year 2023, Súmate said that “it is timely and necessary” for the CNE board to rule “as soon as possible to avoid interference and usurpation of its constitutional and legal competence to set the date and make the call for these elections, and thus avoid the calculations of a political bias such as the PSUV being imposed”.
The association pointed out that, otherwise, “the transparency of this electoral process would be disturbed, and at the same time guarantee other political actors and voters certainty about the date on which these elections should be held.”
Súmate asked the current directory of the CNE, chaired by the historian Pedro Calzadilla, to announce the date of the presidential elections in advance “as the predecessor governing body of the governing body of the Electoral Power did” when it provided the 2012-2013 electoral calendar and thus avoid the happened in the presidential elections of May 2018, which were held eight months in advance and were not recognized by the international community.
In recent days, the vice president of the CNE, Enrique Márquez, ruled out an advance of the presidential elections as the ruling party has appeared, but the CNE board criticized the rector’s statements. Pedro Calzadilla Pedro Calzadilla publicly warned him not to participate “in the debate of political actors.”
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Súmate also considers that the CNE board is in time to plan the regional and municipal elections, with the aim of holding them separately and preventing the former from overlapping the latter, as occurred in the November 21, 2021 elections. .
“One of the reasons for this request is because they are two different levels or spheres of public powers. In addition, in the regional and municipal elections of November 21, 2021, it was possible to verify, due to their complexity and particularity, that the majority of voters were forced to opt for the “‘piped vote’ or ‘vote for all ‘, that is, the vote for a single political option, affecting the principle of the personalization of suffrage”, highlighted the association.
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