Stéphane Dujarric, spokesman for the secretariat of the United Nations (UN), stressed that the multilateral organization has expressed its concern in public and in private about the lack of “transparency” in the Venezuelan electoral process. During a press conference, he ruled out that it is up to the organization or its main leader, António Guterres, to recognize a particular government.
The United Nations (UN) reiterated on Wednesday that “much more transparency” is needed in relation to the presidential elections of July 28 in Venezuela. It asserted that the lack of public data continues to be a cause for “concern” one month later.
On August 28, Stéphane Dujarric, spokesman for the United Nations secretariat, stressed that the multilateral organization has expressed its concerns in public and in private. During a press conference, Dujarric ruled out that it is up to the organization or its main leader, António Guterres, to recognize a particular government.
A panel of United Nations experts concluded that the July elections lacked “basic measures of transparency” and Dujarric has again called for the publication of the minutes corresponding to the precise results of each polling station, as the Venezuelan opposition has been doing.
The National Electoral Council (CNE), which declared the current president, Nicolás Maduro, the winner, has refused to release the results. The Supreme Court of Justice endorsed the CNE’s decision, which led to a new wave of demonstrations for and against the government on Wednesday.
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The Electoral Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) validated last Thursday, August 22, the results issued by the National Electoral Council (CNE), which give the victory of the presidential elections to the ruler Nicolás Maduro.
In a ruling, read by the judge and president of the Chamber, Caryslia Beatriz Rodríguez, a “massive cyber attack against the electoral system” was confirmed, as well as the results of the “final report” delivered on August 20 by the experts hired by the TSJ for this purpose.
“Based on the results obtained in the expert process, we can conclude that the bulletins issued by the National Electoral Council regarding the 2024 presidential election are supported by the vote counting records issued by each of the voting machines deployed in the electoral process, and likewise these records fully coincide with the records in the databases of the national totalization centers,” says the report, an issue that was ratified by the TSJ.
With information from Europa Press
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