He Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) meets this Friday in an extraordinary session to vote on a new draft resolution on the post-election crisis in Venezuela which calls for the publication of the voting records “expeditiously.”
The news television channel NTN24 On Friday, the OAS announced part of the draft resolution, which is sponsored by USA, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Canada, Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala, Paraguay, Dominican Republic, Surinam y Uruguay.
According to NTN24, the sponsors of the text call on the National Electoral Council (CNE) Venezuela to promptly publish “the minutes with the results of the presidential election votes at the level of each polling station and respect the fundamental principle of popular sovereignty through an impartial verification of the results that guarantees the transparency, credibility and legitimacy of the electoral process.”
They also demand “protecting and preserving all equipment used in the electoral process, including all printed minutes and results, in order to safeguard the entire chain of custody of the voting process,” according to the channel.
This project follows another on the situation in Venezuela following the July 28 elections, which was put to a vote in the OAS Permanent Council on July 31 and did not have sufficient support to be approved.
On that occasion, 17 countries voted in favor, 0 against, 11 abstained and 5 delegations were absent.
The new draft resolution, NTN24 says, is the result of a negotiation session held on Tuesday, August 13, and contains amendments received subsequently.
Venezuela has been experiencing an anomalous and critical situation since July 28, as the National Electoral Council (CNE) declared Nicolás Maduro, the current president, the winner, but without publishing the voting records table by table, something that the opposition did. Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD) on a website to support his claim that his candidate won by a wide margin, Edmundo Gonzalez the distance.
A panel of UN experts who were in Venezuela from late June to August 2 concluded that the management of results by Venezuelan electoral authorities after the elections of July 28 lacked the “basic measures of transparency and integrity that are essential to hold credible elections.”
He Carter Center from the USAthe only international observer authorized in these elections, stated in a statement on July 30 that the electoral process “did not conform” to the international parameters and standards of electoral integrity, and therefore “cannot be considered democratic.”
There have also been complaints against the Venezuelan authorities in relation to the repression of opposition protests in the streets to denounce what they describe as electoral “fraud,” in which more than twenty people died and more than a thousand were arrested, according to official figures.
The Electoral Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice is carrying out a process of expert verification of the documentation presented by the CNE on the electoral process and results, but has not yet concluded its task.
Amid growing support inside and outside Venezuela for transparency calls, countries normally aligned with Nicolás Maduro such as Brazil y Colombia They have suggested solutions such as repeating the elections or forming a coalition government. EFE (I)
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