Maduro hands over party's electoral records to Venezuelan court

The electoral records held by the parties supporting the Venezuelan government were delivered, on Friday (9), to the Supreme Court of Justice as part of the investigation opened by the country's courts to determine the presidential elections scheduled for July 28.

This information was published by President Nicolas Maduro.

United Socialist Party of Venezuela [PSUV] The great national pole of Simon Bolivar [coalizão de partidos que dão apoio ao governo Maduro] They have the experience, mechanism, organization, professional capacity and expertise to carry out the electoral processes and they have all the documents that were delivered to the electoral office today. [do TSJ]Maduro told reporters after the hearing with the judges.

Since last Wednesday (7), representatives of the 38 parties that participated in the presidential elections, as well as nine of the ten candidates who ran in the elections, have gone to the Supreme Court of Justice for hearings with the judges of the so-called Electoral Chamber of the Supreme Court. Court.

The only person not present was the main opposition candidate, Edmundo González. He justified his absence by saying that the Supreme Court's investigation was usurping the powers of the National Electoral Council, which is responsible for conducting elections in the country.

On the other hand, the leaders of the parties supporting Edmundo approached Syrians for Truth and Justice, but they did not present the minutes they had in their possession, claiming that they had already published them on the Internet.

Maduro questioned the opposition for not presenting its documents.

Electoral Chamber [do TSJ] “I would have asked all the political parties for all the necessary information, and they came up empty-handed,” the president said, adding that he would ask the public prosecutor to request that all hearings be made public. “I have requested that my hearing be made public,” he added.

In Venezuela, when voting is over, the ballot box prints out the electoral report and a copy is distributed to all party inspectors present at the location. The documents are used for captions to verify whether the data used by the National Electoral Commission to count the votes is the same as that which came out of the ballot box on voting day. However, the electoral authority has not yet published the data for each ballot box.

“Electoral records are not published in Venezuela,” said Chavista representative Diosdado Cabello, when questioned by reporters after today’s hearing at the Supreme Court of Justice. “Here [na Venezuela] The results are given. If I have a problem with the result, I submit my report to prove the evidence.”

Although the minutes themselves have not been published, the National Election Commission always publishes data according to the voting schedule, which has not happened yet. The agency's website remains offline.

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The country's electoral authority declared Maduro the winner of the election, but did not provide detailed data for each polling station, and did not carry out the audits scheduled for after the election, which sparked allegations of fraud.

The campaign of candidate Edmundo González has published on the Internet alleged electoral records held by the parties that support him. This data indicates González’s victory. However, the government claims that the opposition meeting minutes were falsified and the country’s public ministry has opened a criminal investigation against those responsible for the page that hosted these documents.

In this context, the Venezuelan Supreme Court opened an investigation into the electoral process. As a result, the National Electoral Commission handed over the supposed original records to the judiciary without making them public. In a new statement published on Thursday (8), Brazil, Mexico and Colombia once again requested the publication of the complete electoral data.