Caracas, Aug 9 (EFE).- Former Venezuelan opposition candidate Enrique Márquez asked the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) on Friday for a investigation into the National Electoral Council (CNE) for “conspiracy” which ratified President Nicolás Maduro as the winner of the July 28 presidential elections, a result questioned inside and outside the country.
“We accuse (…) the rectors of a serious crime, which is a conspiracy to destroy the foundations of the republic, using as an excuse an alleged hack (which affected -according to the CNE- the transmission of the election results),” said Márquez, who made this request through a document that he submitted to the TSJ.
The former candidate expressed his “conviction” that the “Five principal directors of the CNE are committing a criminal offense (…) by violating the popular sovereignty contained in suffrage.”
He also called for “counting the votes” since it is “not enough” to publish the results, something that the CNE has not yet done.
“Given this immense doubt (…), I demand that the court carry out a vote-by-vote recount, that it order the CNE to do so, or that the court do it. That it order all the boxes, all the ballot boxes, to be brought in, because that is where (…) the vote of the Venezuelans is, to prove what has happened,” said Márquez.
He recalled that in 2013, opposition leader Henrique Capriles asked the CNE to “open all the boxes” after losing the presidency to Maduro, and the electoral institution allowed it.
Márquez said that next week he will go to the Attorney General’s Office to request “an investigation” to “determine whether there is a criminal offense” in the “way the CNE has behaved.”
“The CNE is under attack, but not the cybernetic system, it is under attack politically,” said the opposition member, who criticized that, after almost two weeks of the elections, the electoral body has not published the disaggregated results, but “can, supposedly, take them to the Electoral Chamber.”
On Thursday, Márquez appeared before the TSJ, after this institution accepted a contentious appeal introduced by Maduro to “certify” the election results.
However, the opposition leader said he was “surprised” by an audience that was “empty” as he was not asked any questions nor was he allowed to “establish any kind of verbal communication.”
“I was not asked for the minutes, I was not asked for anything. It was all very strange, I confess. And when I left I realized that the media had been herded into a place, to which I had no access. That is why the press conference,” he said.
He said that the contentious resource “does not exist” and the “procedure they are using does not exist either.”
“We ask the Electoral Court to restore justice in this case. The president cannot exercise this type of recourse and we made that clear in the document. We also made it clear (…) that the TSJ should never have accepted that document from the president. It is inadmissible due to all the flaws it has (…). The Electoral Court is not acting in accordance with our Constitution and the laws,” he said.
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2024-08-10 17:55:11
