A panel of four electoral experts from the United Nations Organization (UN) denounced in a report the lack of “transparency and integrity” in the management of the results of the elections held in Venezuela on July 28, in which Nicolas Maduro was proclaimed by the CNE as winner with 52% of the votes.
The opposition, led by Maria Corina Machadocomplaint fraud and claims victory for its candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia. Meanwhile, the ruling party has still not presented all of the electoral records.
Faced with this scenario, the UN Secretary General stressed that the “absence of detailed results” It is unprecedented” in the history of Venezuelan elections.
The report of the panel of electoral specialists was initially private for the secretary general of the international organization, Antonio Guterres, But the organization released a preliminary version on Tuesday night in which it maintains that The National Electoral Council (CNE) “failed to comply with the basic measures of transparency and integrity that are essential” for “credible elections.”
“It also failed to follow national legal and regulatory provisions, and All established deadlines were not met“, the report says. These conclusions are in line with the calls of international leaders and the European Union, who have expressed their concern about the situation from the outset.
Venezuela criticises UN report ‘rife with lies’
The response from the Venezuelan authorities was not long in coming. From the electoral body, They rejected the UN experts’ report and said the text was “riddled with lies.”
The electoral authority, accused of serving Chavismo, a movement that has been at the head of the country for 25 years, said there was a “perverse political intention” with the disclosure of this report“It is a pamphletary document” to “try to delegitimize the impeccable and transparent electoral process carried out,” he added.
Faced with social and political pressure, the CNE shared a statement in the days following the election in which it stated that “contingency protocols were applied” to “have a transmission of 80% of the minutes, with an irreversible result in favor of the candidate Nicolás Maduro.”
“The results could not be disclosed due to continuous attacks on the disclosure platforms,” they decreed.
The UN also responded to official claims of cyberattack and explained that “the CNE postponed and subsequently cancelled three post-election audits key, including one on the communication system, which could have shed light on the occurrence of external attacks against the transmission infrastructure.”
Source: Ambito
