For more than seven months the National Electoral Council (CNE) has not published the status of the Electoral Registry. This was stated by Súmate this Thursday, May 11. They emphasize that the electoral and governing body of the Electoral Power has the constitutional and legal duty to facilitate the registration and updating of Data in the RE to more than 25 million 700 thousand Venezuelans who will be of voting age in the 2024 presidential elections.
For more than seven months the National Electoral Council (CNE) has not published the status of the Electoral Registry (RE). This is how he pointed it out join This Thursday, May 11.
The civil association highlighted that the last cut of the RE dates from September 30, 2022.
“The governing body of the Electoral Power has the constitutional and legal duty to facilitate the Registration and Update of Data in the Electoral Registry to more than 25 million 700 thousand Venezuelans who will be of voting age in the December 2024 Presidential Elections,” he said. Sign up for a press release.
The organization confirmed that, to date, only 20 million 866 thousand 385 Venezuelans are authorized inside and outside the country, as reported in the last cut of the RE as of September 30, 2022.
In this sense, Súmate warned that “if the CNE does not bring the RE to all Venezuelans, more than 10 million of the 25 million 700 thousand of voting age in 2024, at least 4 out of 10, could be prevented from exercising this right.” right in the presidential elections.
“Given the silence that the CNE maintains on the movements that increase and decrease the Electoral Registry, Súmate considers that this violates the right of every person to access information and data that is recorded about himself in official or private records,” stated the association. He stressed that this right is established in article 28 of the Constitution.
In addition, the electoral body fails to comply with its legal duties as the governing body of the Electoral Power to “guarantee the timely and correct updating of the Electoral Registry, permanently and uninterrupted”, provided for in article 33, numeral 18, of the Organic Law of Power Electoral (LOPE).
Nor does it comply with the principle of “administrative effectiveness”, according to which “the administrative procedures and procedures of the Electoral Registry must be transparent, timely, pertinent, efficient, effective and easy to understand.”
Súmate highlighted that until now, the rectors of the CNE have not responded to the requests to serve the large contingent of more than 10 million Venezuelans who are not registered or need to update their data on their new residence and voting center inside and outside the country.
«This estimated figure corresponds to: more than 4 million nationals registered in the RE and more than 1 million not registered abroad; more than 2 million who need to update their residence and voting center data in the country, because they were migrated without consultation or because they moved and live in a geographical environment very distant from the place where they vote,” the association said.
Likewise, at least 2 million young people of voting age within the national territory and who are not registered; and more than 700,000 young people who are expected to reach the age of 18 between 2023 and 2024, 600,000 within Venezuela and 100,000 abroad.
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