Prosecutors to investigate alleged opposition plan to tamper with election results

The Venezuela’s prosecutor’s office announced on Monday the opening of an investigation into an alleged plan by people linked to the majority opposition to tamper with the results of the elections held on Sunday, in which Nicolás Maduro was proclaimed president by the National Electoral Council (CNE), which was rejected by the opposition.

In a statement to reporters, the attorney general, Tarek William Saab said that the electoral system suffered an “attack from North Macedonia” yesterday, whose intention was to “manipulate the data that was being received” on the results of the voting in the more than 15,000 authorized centers.

“They wanted to tamper with the voting records of the automated system,” said the prosecutor, who blamed the opposition leader María Corina Machado, as well as former deputy Lester Toledo and former mayor Leopoldo López, both exiled opposition members of the Voluntad Popular party, for these plans.

Se It is about “an attack that slowed down the sending of minutes for the vote count,” continued Saab, who appointed two prosecutors to investigate this case.

He stressed that the The Prosecutor’s Office “will be monitoring any act “that attempts to initiate an escalation of violence to tarnish the democratic celebration” and warned that such actions would constitute crimes that carry penalties of up to 20 years in prison.

Thus, He asked Venezuelans “not to allow themselves to be used in destabilizing agendas” “that respond to petty interests alien to the national interest, that seek chaos, unrest and the suffering of the majority.”