Electoral Showdown: PCV Takes Center Stage in Presidential Vote Count

|| EFE Agency

The communists demanded that the results must be shown “in a transparent manner”

The Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) asked to count the votes of the July 28 presidential elections, three months after the National Electoral Council (CNE) announced the dubious victory of Nicolás Maduro and in the face of the absence of disaggregated data on this result. , according to a note released this Tuesday by the formation.

“We insist that we must open the boxes and count the votes, we must show the country and the world in a transparent manner those results to generate the trust that Venezuelans demand,” said Maribell Díaz, a member of the PCV political center, intervened by the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ).

The CNE – directed by rectors close to the Government – denied a cyber attack on polling day that did not prevent it from publishing a bulletin with results, but because of that until today it has been impossible to access the disaggregated data – as established by its own regulations – or audit the votes.

The PCV regretted that the TSJ – controlled by judges sympathetic to Chavismo – validated, by judgment, the result of the presidential elections, after Maduro requested a review before the Electoral Chamber, which left the CNE out of’ the audit process.

Díaz questioned how opaque the TSJ handled Maduro’s request, and that the arguments presented by the head of state in this process are not known today.

The PCV, which asked the TSJ to annul the judgment that validated the result of the presidential elections, repeated its complaint of “intense repression” after the presidential elections, whose result has been accused of being fraudulent by the largest coalition of the opposition party, the United Democratic Platform. ( PUD ).