The Venezuelan Supreme Court of Justice will carry out this Friday (2), at 3 pm (Brasília time), the audit of the results of the elections that reelected, according to the National Electoral Council (CNE), Nicolás Maduro for a third term.
The 10 presidential candidates who participated in the election, including main opponent Edmundo González Urrutia, were summoned by the court to attend the verification, which was requested by Maduro after repeated challenges to the result.
Maduro presented the request to the Electoral Chamber of the Venezuelan Supreme Court of Justice to clarify what he called an “attempted coup d’état” and “attack against the electoral process.”
The Venezuelan president also asked the Electoral Chamber to summon institutions, registered presidential candidates and political parties to “compare what this attack was and evidence”.
The president also said he was ready to present 100% of the minutes that “are in our hands”.
Maduro said he will attend the Supreme Electoral Tribunal’s nomination. “I will be there. I hope all the presidential candidates will attend. Do you think everyone will go? Who won’t?” the president said.
According to the CNE, aligned with the president, Maduro won the elections with 51.2% of the votes — 5,150,092 votes —, while Edmundo González had 44.2% — 4,445,978 votes.
As a result, Maduro was re-elected for a new six-year term — from January 2025 to January 2031.
The opposition disputes the figures and protests against the alleged lack of transparency of the electoral body.
Opposition contests result
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said that “she can already prove the truth”, highlighting that Edmundo González is, in fact, the country’s president-elect.
According to Machado, the opposition has access to 73.2% of the electoral records, which would prove González’s victory.
“Even if the CNE [Conselho Nacional Eleitoral] gave 100% of the votes to Maduro [nas atas restantes]it is not enough with what we already have. The difference was so great, in all states, in all strata, in all sectors”, he pointed out.
According to data released by the opposition, Edmundo González obtained, until the last analysis, 6,275,182 votes, and Nicolás Maduro, 2,759,253.
María Corina Machado also said that her team worked to create a “robust” website that brings together this data.
González was also at the press conference, in which he said: “We have in our hands the minutes that demonstrate our categorical and irreversible triumph.”
“Our triumph is historic,” he added. He also thanked the international community for its support.
After saying that they will fight for freedom, he commented: “I understand your indignation, but our response, from the democratic sectors, is one of calm and firmness”, also speaking about peace.
There were protests in the capital Caracas on Monday, with clashes with police.
“There is an effort to demoralize the people’s desire for change,” said González.
Where are the minutes?
Venezuela’s CNE has not published the detailed results by electoral college and polling station that support the announcement of President Nicolás Maduro’s victory in Sunday’s (28) presidential elections, but the minutes containing these results are already circulating on the internet, as verified by CNN .
The possibility of consulting the minutes was opened after Corina Machado announced the creation of the website so that interested parties could review the result from the table at which they voted.
“We have 73.20% of the minutes and with this result our elected president is Edmundo González Urrutia”, said Machado at that time.
It was a similar announcement to the one he made on Sunday night when, with 40% of the votes, he also stated that the candidate of the Plataforma Unitaria Democrática had won against Nicolás Maduro.
On Tuesday morning (30), a team from CNN unsuccessfully tried to make this query by accessing the website, a topic that was trending on social networks such as X (formerly Twitter) due to the website being saturated by the number of users trying to access it.
Some reported that, after insisting, they were able to review the minutes from their polling stations on this website.
The afternoon, The CNN managed to enter another site which offers the same service and there he was able to review the minutes that would belong to the electoral colleges of five people with Venezuelan documents.
Citizens with an identity document issued by the Venezuelan authorities can access these sites with their number, regardless of whether or not they voted in the elections held three days ago, and review the result printed in the minutes.
A CNN does not know how this material was processed, nor whether all the voting records of the National Electoral Council are there, and cannot determine whether the results of these records are true.
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But CNN can confirm that, of the five ballot numbers entered, all correspond to the electoral college assigned to people with that identification.
To confirm the authenticity of the information, it would be necessary for the CNE to provide details of the results.
All that is known is what the president of the CNE declared on Sunday: “with 80% of the official count, Maduro had 51% of the votes.”
Contrary to the custom of publishing the results of elections by electoral college and table almost immediately on the CNE website, the current board of the body did not do so.
The Carter Center, former presidents Leonel Fernández of the Dominican Republic and Ernesto Samper of Colombia – both invited as observers – and several governments in the region have called for the publication of detailed results to dispel any doubts that have arisen.
(With information from Tiago Tortella, Gustavo Zanfer, Alfredo Meza and Gonzalo Zegarrada, from CNN ; and Reuters)
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