“Everything requested by the highest court of the Republic was delivered,” Elvis Amoroso declared on Monday night, during a public hearing.
The president of Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (CNE) announced that he has handed over to the Supreme Court of Justice (STJ) all the records of the last presidential elections, in which Nicolás Maduro claimed victory, something contested by the opposition.
“Everything requested by the highest court of the Republic was delivered“Elvis Amoroso declared on Monday night, in a public hearing.
Since the July 28 elections, the opposition has been requesting the public disclosure of the minutes, something denied by the CNE, which said it was the victim of hacking attacks.
In response, The opposition accused both the CNE and the STJ of being subordinate to the President’s Government. Nicolas Maduro.
Venezuela’s top court on Sunday ordered the CNE to publish the minutes of the presidential election within three business days.
On Thursday, the STJ accepted Maduro’s request to certify the results of the last presidential elections in which he was re-elected for a new six-year term (2025-2031).
On Friday, nine of the ten electoral candidates summoned by the STJ appeared before that body – Nicolás Maduro, Luis Martínez, Daniel Ceballos, Antonio Ecarry, Benjamín Raússeo, Enrique Marques, José Brito, Javier Bertucci and Claudio Fermín – some of whom told reporters that they were unaware of the content of the appeal filed by Maduro.
One of those summoned, the main opposition candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, did not appear before the STJ, which led the Venezuelan president to warn that this would bring “inevitable consequences.”
Without revealing the content of the appeal, Maduro said that the Government and the United Socialist Party of Venezuela are ready to publish all electoral registers and accused the internal opposition of attempting, with the help of opponents abroad, “a coup d’état using the electoral process.”
Maduro also asked that the election results be certified “with the opinion of experts of the highest technical level” and explained that he was willing to be summoned, questioned, investigated and brought to justice.
According to the CNE, Maduro was re-elected with 6,408,844 votes, 51.95% of the total, with the main opposition candidate, González Urrutia, in second place, with 5,326,104 votes, 43.18%.
In its second bulletin on the electoral process, the CNE states that there were 12,335,884 valid votes in the presidential elections of July 28.
According to the CNE, candidate Luis Martínez obtained 152,360 votes (1.24%) and the rest were below 1%.
The Venezuelan opposition claimed victory in the presidential elections, with 70% of the votes for González Urrutia, and opposition leader María Corina Machado refused to recognize the official results, based on the minutes drawn up at the inauguration of the opposition coalition.
Source: Observadora
