Maduro says the Carter Center has “said its goodbyes” after dismissing electoral hacking

Caracas, Aug 9 (EFE).- Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said Friday that the Carter Center, which was an observer in the July 28 presidential elections, “has said its goodbyes” after stating that there is no evidence of hacking in the electoral system, which according to the electoral body caused the delay in the vote aggregation process, the official result of which declared the president the winner.

“The Carter Center has no instrument, no capacity to say the nonsense it has said, that the Venezuelan system was not the object of a cyber attack (…). The Carter Center has said its goodbye through the sad door of lies in this electoral history,” Maduro said in a broadcast on the state channel VTV.

However, the organization, which said that Venezuela’s elections cannot be considered “democratic,” was invited by the National Electoral Council (CNE) “because of the seriousness it presents (…) in this matter,” said Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López during a meeting with its members.

Maduro criticized the Carter Center – which “is not a constitutional authority or institution in Venezuela” – for saying that there was no cyber attack when it is “public and notorious” that “it was brutal.”

He also said that the institution is run by officials “paid” by billionaire George Soros, while reiterating – as the Venezuelan foreign minister did on Thursday – that the head of the observation mission in Venezuela, Jennie Lincoln, “is an employee of the State Department.”

The president said that the Carter Center observers arrived in Venezuela “prejudiced” and, he reiterated, they already had a written report.

On Wednesday, Lincoln said that after analyzing the election data, the Carter Center believes that the winner of the presidential election is Edmundo González Urrutia – standard-bearer of the largest opposition coalition – who collected “83.5%” of the electoral records that, he claims, prove his victory, something that Maduro considers as “forged documents.”

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