CNE rejects European Union statement

This Wednesday, the president of the National Electoral Council (CNE), Elvis Amoroso, rejected the statement from the European Union and He assured that the holding of elections in the country is a matter for Venezuelans.

“The Electoral Power (EP) of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, a free, sovereign and independent nation, repudiates the unusual statement from the European Union (EU) in which considerations are issued that are the exclusive competence of Venezuelans, turning the EU into a new interventionist actor that seeks to interfere in the decisions of the CNE. We do not accept it.”, read the president of the CNE at a meeting with the media.

According to Amoroso, the European Union “it has behaved as a biased and aggressive actor, which violates national dignity and additionally becomes an actor of disturbance to the electoral processes, maintaining the illegal and illegitimate application of unilateral and genocidal coercive measures with the sole objective of causing harm to the population”.

The official He again demanded that the bloc lift sanctions against the country in its entirety and not as it was presented weeks ago, when a measure of easing was announced regarding him and other authorities related to the administration of Nicolás Maduro.

Publication of Electoral Register

With just under two months to go until the presidential elections, The CNE will publish the Electoral Registry this Saturday, June 1 definitive, complying with the schedule for the elections of July 28.

The registration period for new voters and updating data for those who are already part of the system closed on July 16th. A day later, Amoroso revealed that 604 thousand 964 people registeredwhile 847,999 people changed their voting center.