CNE repudiated “report” by UN electoral experts on the 28-J elections

Published at: 14/08/2024 02:41 PM

The National Electoral Council (CNE) categorically repudiated the “preliminary report” of the Panel of Experts of the United Nations (UN) on the presidential elections of July 28, 2024 because it was plagued by false statements and contradictions.

In a statement released this Wednesday, the Electoral Power catalogued the above-mentioned sheet document, as it was biased in order to support “the scam published by the campaign command of one of the candidates.”

In the same way, the CNE stressed that this “report” contradicts those established in UN regulations, which state that Electoral Expert Panels do not issue public statements evaluating the general conduct of an electoral process or its results.

Below is the full statement:

The Electoral Power of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela repudiates the publication of the so-called “Preliminary Report” of the Panel of Experts of the United Nations (UN) on the Presidential Election held in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela on July 28, 2024, illegal, contrary to the principles of the United Nations (UN), violating the Terms of Reference agreed with this Constitutional Power and, above all, plagued by lies and contradictions.

The Panel of Experts of the United Nations (UN) accompanied the entire electoral process at the express invitation of the National Electoral Council (CNE) itself, with extensive and permanent support throughout its deployment, as they are forced to admit in the infamous “Preliminary Report”. However, the publication of a supposed “report” was not within their functions and demonstrates the perverse political intentionality of such dissemination, composed of fallacious and disfigured arguments. As established in Point 4 of the terms of reference agreed between the United Nations (UN) and the National Electoral Council (CNE), on June 29, 2024: “The Panel is not an observation mission and, therefore, will not issue any public pronouncement or judgment on the process and/or the result of the elections.”

In doing so, this Panel of Experts of the United Nations (UN) not only betrayed what was expressly agreed with the National Electoral Council (CNE), but also violated the rules established by the United Nations (UN) itself, because “unlike electoral observation missions of the United Nations (UN), which require a specific mandate from the Security Council or the General Assembly, (...) the Panels of Electoral Experts do not issue public statements evaluating the general conduct of an electoral process or its results” (https://venezuela.un.org/es/273604-el-panel-de - Electoral-Experts-of-UN-Leg%C 3% B3-Venezuela).

Beyond the violations of professional ethics, on the part of the team of technical assumptions, the content of this “report” is a pamphlet document and its “expertise” is absolutely crumbled in view of the poor and easily refutable arguments they use to try to delegitimize the impeccable and transparent electoral process carried out on July 28, as almost a thousand observers from all corners of the planet were able to verify, unlike this Panel of Experts of the United Nations Organization (UN) - accompanied the Venezuelan people with rectitude and integrity in this celebration of their vigorous participatory and leading democracy.

In the accumulation of lies that they attempt to impose in the fraudulent “Report”, the following can be highlighted:

* In Point 6, they state that there were “last-minute changes to the voting stations”. This is absolutely false and no case or complaint has been filed to support this lie. All Venezuelans registered in the Electoral Register know that they can check their assigned electoral center in advance, which does not change on the day of the election.

* In Point 9, although unlike their friends at the Carter Center, they do admit that the data transmission process was interrupted after the tables closed, they try, however, to question the terrorist cyberattack suffered by the National Electoral Council (CNE) platform starting on July 28 at night and which continues to this day, pointing out that no information or explanation was provided. Not only has accurate information been provided about this attack since that very night, but national and international companies and specialists have verified what happened and, even more so, the terrorists themselves have claimed responsibility for these crimes on different social networks, subsequently extending them to other areas of the Venezuelan State.

* Despite the delay in the process of transmitting results, contingency protocols were applied, and the National Electoral Council (CNE) managed to transmit 80% of the minutes, with an irreversible result in favor of candidate Nicolás Maduro. After the announcement of the bulletin to the country, the results could not be released due to continuous attacks on outreach platforms, which are exposed to the internet.

Regarding the speculations they make in Point 11, these “experts” must be reminded that neither the regulations nor the protocol provide for the delivery of minutes to observers. On the other hand, in Venezuela, voting is electronic and counting is automated, as is totalization, where the integrity of the data is guaranteed through certification schemes. Manual records are vulnerable to being falsified, as indeed happened later by some political actors, because there is no technical element to guarantee their integrity.

* In Point 12, they shamelessly try to endorse the scam published by the campaign command of one of the candidates, which clearly highlights the political agenda that guides them and the interests to which they respond. It will be necessary to remind them, once again, of the protocol to which they committed themselves to the National Electoral Council (CNE), according to which the Panel of Experts of the United Nations (UN) was not empowered to carry out audits on alleged acts that have no level of legality, since they were not provided by the electoral body. The “experts” commit an act of illegality, giving as valid alleged acts that come from unofficial sources.

With their political agenda against the Venezuelan people, these figures question the credibility and reliability of the United Nations (UN), while mocking the trust placed in them by Member States.

The National Electoral Council (CNE), one of the five independent powers that make up the Venezuelan State, in accordance with the mandate of our Constitution, reaffirms to the national and international community that despite unjustifiable attacks on our electoral system and our good faith, the truth will prevail over slander.

Mazo News Team