The integrity of the election has been widely contested both in Venezuela and outside the country.
The Supreme Court of Venezuela has declared the President Nicolás Maduro the contested presidential election of the winning country. The Supreme Court is considered loyal to the Maduro regime.
According to the Supreme Court, it has secured the election materials and confirms the results announced by the National Election Commission. Maduro himself had asked the court earlier this month to review elections held at the end of July, the integrity of which has been widely disputed both inside and outside Venezuela.
After the election, the country’s election commission declared Maduro the winner, but did not publish a district-by-district breakdown of the election result. Among other things, a report by UN election experts published earlier this month considered the non-publication of accurate results unheard of. According to the Election Commission, it did not publish a district-level breakdown of voting results due to the cyber attack. However, observers have dismissed the alleged hacking as a pretext.
According to the Venezuelan opposition, the opposition’s presidential candidate Edmundo González won the election with more than two thirds of the vote. González commented on the Supreme Court’s decision earlier on Thursday on the X messaging service.
– To the judges of the court: no decision replaces the will of the people. The country and the world know of your bias and, as a result, your inability to resolve this conflict, he wrote.
According to the authorities, almost 30 people have died and more than 2,400 have been arrested in elections-related protests in Venezuela.