Venezuela informs the international community about the electoral controversy file

Published at: 10/08/2024 09:12 PM

The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, through an official statement, informed the international community that today, August 10, 2024, the Supreme Court of Justice, in its Electoral Chamber, completed the phase of oral hearings of the representatives of the political parties and former candidates who participated in the Presidential Elections held on July 28.

The letter summarizes the judicial process initiated after the introduction of the contentious electoral appeal by President Nicolás Maduro.

Below is the full text of the statement:

The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela informs the international community that today, August 10, 2024, the Supreme Court of Justice, in its Electoral Chamber, the highest judicial instance in which disputes relating to electoral processes are resolved, in accordance with the provisions of Article 297 of our Constitution, reported that it has culminated in the phase of oral hearings of the representatives of the political parties and former candidates who participated in the Presidential Elections held last July 28.

In this regard, the highest court of the Republic announced the following elements:

1. The National Electoral Council appeared in full with all its Principal Rectors, “fully complying with the request made by this Electoral Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice, by assigning in a timely and timely manner all the precautions related to the electoral process”.

2. “The thirty-eight (38) candidate political organizations attended in due course, and thirty-three (33) of them provided the required electoral material.”

3. “Of the ten (10) former candidates mentioned, nine (9) attended,” including the President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro Moros.

4. “Former candidate Edmundo González Urrutia, DID NOT ATTEND and therefore DID NOT COMPLY with the summons, flouting with his inaction the mandate of this, the highest instance of the Contentious Electoral Jurisdiction of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Consequently, HE DID NOT COMPLY with the recording of the minutes of the ballots, the list of witnesses or any electoral material.”

5. The representatives of the political parties Un Nuevo Tiempo (UNT), Mesa de la Unidad Democrática (MUD) and Movimiento por Venezuela (MPV), “all members of the Democratic Unitary Platform Alliance and candidates of former candidate Edmundo González Urrutia; they did not submit any electoral material, arguing that they do not have any documentation related to this electoral process. In this regard, they stated that they have no minutes of scrutiny of the witnesses at the tables, nor lists of witnesses, also claiming that they did not participate in the process of transferring and safeguarding any material.”

The Supreme Court of Justice reported that, having completed the phase of collecting the electoral instruments of the different factors participating in the Presidential Elections process, from now on, “the Magistrates of this Electoral Chamber are engaged in the ASSESSMENT of all the electoral material of evidentiary value recorded in physical and/or digital, as well as the EXPERTISE on the massive cyberattack to which the Venezuelan electoral system was subject, for which this Chamber will have a highly qualified and qualified staff who will use of the highest technical standards”.
In this way, the Supreme Judicial Instance guarantees all citizens of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela that conflicts that fall exclusively within the competence of the Venezuelan State will be resolved “in a sovereign manner”.

To this end, the Electoral Chamber will issue in a timely manner “the FINAL JUDGMENT that answers the present appeal, which will be res judicata, since this judicial body is the highest judicial instance in electoral matters, so that its decisions are unappealable and must be complied with”.

Caracas, August 10, 2024

Mazo News Team