Venezuela's National Electoral Council (CNE) did not demonstrate ‘transparency’ or ‘integrity’ in the way it processed the results of the 28 July presidential elections, a United Nations panel concluded in a report published on Tuesday.
‘The CNE's results management process did not fulfil the basic transparency and integrity measures that are essential for holding credible elections,’ reads the UN report, quoted by ABC, adding that the CNE did not follow “national legal and regulatory provisions”.
The Venezuelan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on the other hand, considered that ‘this represents an absolutely reckless act that undermines confidence in the mechanisms designed for co-operation and technical assistance’.
After the elections, the CNE declared President Nicolás Maduro the winner, nominating him for a third six-year term, with 52 per cent of the vote.
The Venezuelan opposition claims, however, that its candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, was the real winner of the elections, by a wide margin.
The international community has been pressurizing the Venezuelan government to make the electoral records public so that the results can be scrutinized transparently.
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