Edmundo González Urrutia, spoke out after the UN and Carter Center reports on the results of last July 28.
“They confirm the lack of transparency in the announced results,” he said.
Through his X account, González Urrutia stated, “The reports of the UN Panel of Experts and the Carter Center, international guests of the CNE, confirm the lack of transparency in the announced results and the veracity of the published minutes, which demonstrate our indisputable victory.”
“The will of the people to change in peace and live better, expressed on July 28, is sacred and must be respected,” he said.
The UN Panel of Experts concludes that the process carried out by the National Electoral Council (CNE) “failed to meet the basic measures of transparency and integrity that are essential for holding credible elections.”
“It did not follow national legal and regulatory provisions and did not comply with all stipulated deadlines,” the Panel said.
Furthermore, the UN experts stressed that “the announcement of the result of an election without the publication of its details or the delivery of the tabulated results to the candidates is unprecedented in contemporary democratic elections. This had a negative impact on the confidence of a large part of the Venezuelan electorate in the result announced by the CNE.”
Carter Center
“There is no evidence” that Venezuela’s electoral system was the target of a cyber attack during the July 28 elections, he told the news agency AFP Jennie Lincoln, head of the Carter Center’s observation mission, which agreed with the projections of the opposition victory.
“Companies monitor and know when there are denials of service (hackings) and there was none that night,” Lincoln explained Wednesday in an interview from Atlanta, United States. “The transmission of voting data is by telephone line and satellite phone and not by computer. They have not lost data.”
Lincoln recalled that the president of the CNE, Elvis Amoroso, “said that he would publish the results table by table on the website and would give a CD to the political parties” when he announced a first bulletin.
“It is a promise that was never kept,” said the organization’s advisor for Latin America and the Caribbean.
“Despite the fact that the playing field was very uneven, the Venezuelan people went to vote,” he continued, referring to the elections. “The great irregularity of the election day was the lack of transparency of the CNE and the flagrant failure to observe its rules of the game in terms of showing the true vote of the people.”
The Carter Center, Lincoln explained, has “analyzed the numbers” available along with other organizations and universities and “confirms Edmundo González Urrutia as the winner with more than 60%” of the votes.
||With information from Alberto News
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2024-08-17 06:18:20
