Venezuela’s CNE electoral council, under fire after declaring a widely rejected election victory for President Nicolas Maduro has described a UN report disputing the outcome as “rife with lies.”
The CNE proclaimed Maduro the winner with 52 percent of votes cast in a July 28 poll, without providing a detailed breakdown.
Maduro’s victory has been rejected by the opposition, the United States, European Union and several Latin American countries.
A group of UN election specialists ruled that the CNE “fell short of the basic transparency and integrity measures” in a preliminary report released on Tuesday.
The CNE on Wednesday, said that the UN report was “rife with lies and contradictions” and insisting a “cyber-terrorist attack” has prevented it from disclosing a full breakdown of polling-station-level results after what it termed an “impeccable and transparent electoral process.”
The CNE website has been down since election day.
The UN study has also been rejected by Venezuela’s foreign ministry.
Enrique Marquez, the former head of the opposition and a former member of the CNE who also ran against Maduro, announced on Wednesday that he will ask the prosecutor’s office to open a criminal inquiry against his former colleagues on the electoral council.
Since taking office in 2013, Maduro has presided over an economic disaster that has resulted in the exodus of over seven million Venezuelans and an 80% decline in the country’s GDP in ten years.
Numerous nations also denounced Maduro’s 2018 election as a fraud.
US-IMPERIALIST DESTABILISATION – what your article did not say:
1. that the US political elite created the ECONOMIC crisis in Venezuela by its foolish sanctions, which caused untold sufferings on the ordinary people, causing them to leave their homeland. We have seen the huge damage to IRAQ and later Libya – acting on false information.
Why don’t you tell the story of Africa and how the Colonisers kept your countries in poverty and hunger – even as I write. Stop being a tool for the “white man”!
2. that the US backed the invasion of Venezuela, even when the people for Hugo Chavez – the first Black President of Venezuela – who received more 60% of the votes. the US- spy agency is well-aware of those results, but stayed silent.
We expect Black Journalist, as myself, to tell the TRUTH and historical destruction of AFRICA, ASIA and SOUTH AMERICA