The Carter Center’s senior advisor for Latin America, Jennie Lincoln, showed what she claims to be the original voting records from the controversial presidential elections in Venezuela, in a session held this Wednesday (2), at the headquarters of the Organization of States Americans (OAS), in Washington.
Lincoln guarantees that he received the material in the mail and promised to make the election records available to participants in the session.
“These minutes are fundamental”, he stated, “because they contain a very significant QR code, which allowed electoral observers and witnesses to systematically collect information based on data produced by the National Electoral Council (CNE)”.
She insisted that the CNE has not been transparent in managing the process.
Lincoln’s statement, whose organization was among the few international observers that the Chavista regime accepted in the process, represents the revelation of the minutes from the secret location where they were kept, according to the Command with Venezuela, an electoral platform headed by opposition leader María Corina Machado .
The opposition claims to have managed to collect 83.50% of the electoral records through the witnesses they had at the polling places, with which they claim that the candidate Edmundo González Urrutia is the true winner of the July 28 elections. These results were published on a web portal.
But the CNE, which is controlled by Chavismo, proclaimed Nicolás Maduro the winner without showing the results disaggregated by center and polling station. The Supreme Court of Justice, also dominated by the ruling party, ratified the proclamation, but also did not present detailed numbers.
THE CNN tries to contact the CNE and the Venezuelan Ministry of Communication and Information to comment on the matter.
Two days after the elections, the Carter Center published a statement in which it assured that the elections in Venezuela could not be considered democratic, since, in its opinion, they did not comply with international parameters of electoral integrity and transparency.
In August, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil accused Lincoln of lying and the Carter Center of supporting a coup plot, guaranteeing that “they will not return.”
From exile, presidential candidate Edmundo González reacted in a message on social media to the “milestone of recognition of the truth”. He added that “the minutes represent the sovereign will of the Venezuelan people. And that’s what the Carter Center shows the world today.”
Opposition leader María Corina Machado said, in turn, that the minutes “represent physical proof of Edmundo González’s victory” and that the world now has the truth in its hands.
This content was originally published in Carter Center shows at the OAS what it says are Venezuela’s electoral records on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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