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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Wednesday that the ruling party is “ready” to present 100% of the election’s electoral records, a consistent demand from the international community and the opposition.
Maduro spoke to reporters at the Supreme Court, where he presented a petition to the Electoral Chamber of Education to investigate “attacks” on the electoral process, adding that he hoped the court would also ask other candidates to provide the data they issued for each of the machines in more than 15,000 polling stations.
The high court case comes at a time of great tension over disputed elections and reports of possible arrests of opposition leaders that have kept many people at home.
The country is facing a third day of uncertainty and nervousness after the results announced by the National Electoral Council (CNE) declared Maduro the winner, who will rule for another six years until 2031.
But the opposition, led by Maria Corina Machado and Edmundo Gonzalez, said it had voting machine reports showing their candidate won with more than 6 million votes compared to Maduro’s 2.7 million.
“The United Socialist Party of Venezuela is ready to provide 100% of the electoral protocols that are in our hands, and I hope that the Electoral Chamber will do the same with each candidate and each party. “I know what I am telling you,” Maduro said as he left the court. “Very soon they will know (…) the evidence of this conspiracy has already appeared.”
The President asked TSJ to summon the leadership of the electoral body, the prosecutor’s office and the presidential candidates to compare “the attack on the polling centers and the burned CNE headquarters with a cyber attack.”
The government blamed the delay in transmitting the voting protocols on Sunday on an attack on the computer system.
Amid the protests, Maduro announced on Tuesday that the military and police would patrol streets across the country and said they would use an app to process complaints about “extremist” opponents he blames for the unrest.
An app called Venapp, which is typically used to report service outages, among other things, as Tuesday night has a category that allows people to report “fascist guarimbas,” or the government’s way of describing the demonstrations. “Guarimbas” is the slang Venezuelans use to describe street protests.
Security forces, some dressed in black, were seen moving through several cities across the country on Tuesday evening, according to Reuters witnesses and videos on social media.
According to eyewitnesses, there were no patrols in Caracas early in the morning as announced, except at some specific observation points in the city. Reuters.
The CNE provided only an official bulletin, it did not provide results broken down by the 15,000 centers that were open on Sunday in the country, and its website had been down since Monday.
The Carter Center said in a statement Tuesday evening that it “cannot verify or confirm” the authenticity of the Venezuelan election results.
The group, the only independent election monitor, criticised the electoral body for failing to tabulate the results, which it called a “serious irregularity” and added that the vote “cannot be considered democratic”.
State Department deputy spokesman Vedant Patel said the United States and the international community are running out of patience waiting for election officials to release complete election data.
Earlier, EU Foreign Minister Josep Borrell said the bloc would not be able to recognize the election results until all votes were counted and the protocols were tallied.
The G7 also spoke out, with its foreign ministers endorsing a declaration expressing their solidarity with the Venezuelan people and expressing concern about the outcome.
The non-governmental legal group Foro Penal said on Tuesday that at least 11 people had died in protests against the official election result. However, Machado said on social media that the death toll was 16.
Attorney General Tarek Saab said 1,062 people had been detained and 77 officials had been injured. Two of the dead were security forces, it was reported on Tuesday.
Venezuelan cities like Maracay, Barquisimeto, Valencia, Maracaibo, Puerto Ordaz and San Cristobal woke up with little traffic and few businesses open. And the capital saw more traffic, more traffic and more shops open.
“Right now I’m preparing because we don’t know what will happen in these days. The outlook is very uncertain,” said Vicente Roa, a 78-year-old retiree who was buying canned goods at a supermarket in Puerto Ordaz, a city in the south of the country.
Reuters
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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