The US institute’s report said the electoral process did not meet standards of democratic impartiality. The European Union called for an end to the repression.
He Carter Center, one of the international institutes – in this case, of USA— who served as an observer for the presidential elections in Venezuela, He said that the electoral process that resulted in the winner being Nicolas Maduro for a third term he did not meet the requirements standards of democratic impartiality.
“The presidential election of Venezuela of 2024 did not conform to international parameters and standards of electoral integrity, and cannot be considered democratic,” said a statement from the Carter Center, whose special envoys to Venezuela supervised the elections.
The elections, which were quickly denounced as “fraud” by the opposition, resulted in a scandal of worldwide repercussions and, above all, in strong protests and repression in Bolivarian territory, with a death toll of 12.
The report from the American institute is one of those that several countries and political parties were waiting for in order to pronounce themselves on the legitimacy or not of the electoral results that gave Maduro the victory in his second re-election; among them, the Broad Front, who also said he expected the publication of all the minutes broken down by the National Electoral Council (CNE) and the conclusions of the UN Panel of Experts.
In this regard, the Carter Center said it could not “verify or corroborate the authenticity From the results of the presidential election declared” by the CNE; and that the lack of results broken down by table “constitutes a serious violation of electoral principles”. In addition, he pointed out that both international parameters as precepts of Venezuelan legislation, and that the elections took place “in an atmosphere of restricted freedoms to the detriment of political actors, civil society organizations and the media.”
He also pointed to the “bias in favor of the officialism” of the CNE authorities.
The European Union called for an end to repression
For its part, the European Union (EU) called for an end to “the repression” of the opposition in Venezuela.
The vice president of the European Comission and EU representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrellcalled on the Venezuelan government to end “the repression” of the opposition, after protests sparked by Maduro’s re-election led to a death toll of 12 people.
“The authorities of Venezuela must end arrests, repression and violent rhetoric against opposition members. Threats against Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia and Maria Corina Machado “They are unacceptable,” Borrell said on the X network (formerly Twitter).
Source: Ambito
