Caracas, 3 August 2024 (venezuelanalysis.com) – Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (CNE) issued a Second Bulletin President Nicolás Maduro is confirming his re-election on Friday amid tensions and claims of fraud.

With a reported 96.87 percent of polling stations, the CNE won the July 28 presidential election for Maduro with 51.95 percent (6.4 million votes), while opposition candidate Edmundo González received 43.18 percent (5.3 million votes). The margin between the two candidates increased marginally over CNE. First Bulletin.

In a ___ Press conferenceCNE President Elvis Amoroso said 12.3 out of 21.3 million voted on Sunday for a 59.97 percent turnout.

However, the election body did not release the broken results from its voting center. website which remains out of service. CNE officials have condemned the ongoing cyber attack that has delayed vote counting and publication operations. The severity of the case has not been fully clarified.

For its part, Venezuela’s hardline opposition has rejected the official findings and drawn a parallel. website It reportedly included more than 80 percent of the voting records from polling stations collected by its election witnesses on Sunday.

These yet-to-be-verified election tallies reportedly gave Gonzalez a landslide victory with more than 70 percent of the vote.

National Assembly (AN) President Jorge Rodríguez said on Friday that a “superficial analysis” of the opposition’s election evidence revealed several revelations. Contradictions and claimed that the content was fake.

Rodriguez, who was also Maduro’s campaign chief, pointed to damaged, incomplete or illegible records, as well as some missing signatures from witnesses and polling station officials. He also gave evidence that the opposition website was created before the election.

“This is pure garbage”, Rodríguez said during a press conference with Maduro.

Washington, however, has fully supported the opposition’s claim. On Thursday, US Secretary of State Anthony Blanken announced that it was “clear” that Gonzalez had won the election. Meanwhile, A Leak draft A House resolution proposed by U.S. Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D) and Mario Díaz-Balart (R) calls for recognizing Gonzalez as the “elect president of Venezuela” and for “new sanctions” against the Caribbean nation. Emphasis on imposition.

Peru, Uruguay and Argentina have similarly backed the opposition candidate as the winner, while the governments of Colombia, Brazil and Mexico have called for Venezuela’s sovereignty to be respected while the country’s institutions resolve the electoral issue.

President Maduro on Wednesday to challenge far-right opposition claims of rigged elections request Electoral Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) for judicial review of election results. He promised to collect the numbers collected by the Socialist Party (PSUV) and coalition forces when requested.

In response, the country’s highest court on Friday asked all ten presidential candidates and political parties participating in the July 28 vote to submit the “relevant legal documents” needed to review the election results. All candidates except Gonzalez appeared in a session at the TSJ headquarters in Caracas.

Maria Corina Machado, the main leader of the far-right opposition, has not indicated whether González’s campaign will present her alleged evidence in court or even accept a judicial investigation. In The Wall Street Journal op-edMachado claimed to be in hiding after being identified as responsible for a violent coup plot and called on the “international community” to help enforce the opposition’s claimed victory.

Several opposition candidates present at the Supreme Court headquarters criticized the CNE’s delay in providing detailed election results and demanded their immediate publication. Some supported the intervention of the TJS to resolve the electoral dispute while others argued that it absolved the electoral body of its responsibilities.

Benjamin Rousseau of the CONDE party said most presidential candidates had trusted the “word of the mediator” but that the “veil of obfuscation” had fueled suspicion and violence.

For his part, Antonio Ecarri from the LAPIZ party said the “cure” for the current unrest is “transparency” and urged the Electoral Council to play its part and publish detailed results. “Not everyone protesting in neighborhoods is a fascist.”

He criticized the lack of clarity about the TSJ’s review, the candidates not knowing whether they were summoned as witnesses or defendants and that they were not privy to Maduro’s request.

After meeting with the candidates, TSJ President Caryslia Rodríguez demand Within three days, the CNE presents voting records from polling centers across the country, overall records of the election process and a report declaring Maduro the winner.

In a televised press conference, Rodriguez said the electoral body must provide “all elements of evidence” related to the alleged cyber attack that “impeded the timely transmission of election results.”

The US-backed opposition’s refusal to recognize the election results sparked protests in several Venezuelan cities on Monday, in many cases created Violent clashes with security forces. Some media outlets have reported more than 10 casualties but these are still unconfirmed.

According to Attorney General Tariq William Saab, more than 1,000 arrests were made, 77 soldiers were injured and one sergeant was killed. The unrest eased on Wednesday but more anti-government activists are expected on Saturday. Chavismo is also rallying to reject violence. Foreign intervention.