The Communist Party of Venezuela demanded the publication of the minutes of the Venezuelan presidential elections. The party leader also regretted the situation of journalism in the country and the number of people detained.
The Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) demanded that the electoral commission publish the disaggregated minutes of the presidential elections of July 28, in which Nicolás Maduro was re-elected but whose results are questioned by the opposition.
“We must count the votes, open the polls and show the results to the country and the world to generate the trust and transparency that we demand and to which we have the right,” said Maribel Díaz, of the PCV Political Committee, on Tuesday.
During a press conference in Caracas, Díaz explained that, Until the results are presented it is not possible to file a complaintnot being able to know if there are inconsistencies in any table or municipality.
“The country and the world in general have the right to know the results box by box, center by center. This is what is established and customary in our country,” said the leader, highlighting that three months have passed since the presidential elections.
“Many voices were raised because they did not have these results, as was the practice and custom in this country. What we have seen is an increase in the repression of dissenting voices. Today There are more than two thousand people detained on terrible charges, such as terrorism, incitement to hatred.”Diaz lamented.
According to the leader, “many of the detainees,” who legitimately protested against the official results, “are minors, others are people with disabilities, and we recently had the arrest of journalist Nelín Escalante and an activist in the state of Bolívar. [leste]”Omaira Salazar.”
“From January to October we already counted 15 journalists detained (…). Today in Venezuela we can say that journalism is becoming a very risky profession.. Journalists are detained, taken away without due process, without the possibility of their families knowing where they are, without the possibility of having private defenders. “This is what we are experiencing,” said Díaz.
“We demand full freedom for political activists, journalists and workers who were detained without a fair process,” the leader stressed.
Venezuela, a country with a large community of Portuguese and Portuguese descendants, held presidential elections on July 28, after which the Venezuelan National Electoral Council (CNE) awarded victory to the country’s current president, Nicolás Maduro, with just over 51% of the votes. , while the opposition claims that its candidate, former diplomat Edmundo González Urrutia, obtained almost 70% of the votes.
The Venezuelan opposition and many countries have reported electoral fraud and demanded that voting records be presented for independent verification.
The electoral results have been contested in the streets, with demonstrations repressed by security forces, with, according to authorities, more than 2,400 detained, 27 dead and 192 injured.
The Caracas regime says that a coup d’état is underway, keeps thousands of police and soldiers on the streets to control the protesters, and has asked the population to, anonymously and through the VenAPP application, denounce those who promote the protests.
According to the Venezuelan non-governmental organization Foro Penal (FP), 1,953 people are detained for political reasons in Venezuela, the highest number recorded in the 21st century.
Almost two thousand people are imprisoned for political reasons in Venezuela
According to the FP, among those detained, 1,711 are men and 242 women and 1,792 are civilians and 161 are military, including 69 teenagers.
Source: Observadora
