Venezuela’s Supreme Court has already reviewed 60% of the presidential election minutes

The Electoral Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of Venezuela (TSJ) has already 60% of the minutes of the presidential elections of July 28thafter which the election authorities declared the current president the winner, Nicholas Madurodespite the allegations of fraud by the oppositionwho continued to demonstrate all weekend to demand “transparency.”

The organization’s technicians conduct research on the election material presented by the concurrent political formations and their representatives.

This process consists of the transcription of the results that reflect the research minutes of each political organization, as well as the evaluation of the material, according to the information provided by the TSJ itself. Once the expert report is ready, international election experts will analyze the data to verify the data collected by the political parties’ auditors.

Once the analysis is completed, a report which must be validated by the totalization data of the computer system of the National Electoral Council (CNE).

The team of experts consists of national and international staff specialized in statistics and computer science. In addition national and international observers participateThe entire expert advice process is also supervised by the magistrates of the Electoral Chamber of the TSJ.

The expert advisory process also allows us to verify the damage subsequently caused to the CNE system massive computer attack reported by authorities after the elections.

This whole process is a consequence of electorally controversial appeal filed with the Electoral Chamber by Maduro. Instead of, the opposition rejects this entire revision and considers that the exclusive body competent in electoral matters is the CNE and that it should therefore be the only body to publish electoral results.

More than 1500 prisoners

In contrast, the NGO Foro Penal calculated this on Sunday at least 1,503 confirmed arrests in Venezuela in the context of post-election protests against the official results of the presidential election. The total represents 87 new prison sentences compared to the previous balance, according to data published in X of the Penal Forum.

Several relatives of detainees and human rights organizations have denounced that the prisoners are accused of, among other things, “terrorism” and that they are not being defended by private lawyers.

Both the government and the Public Prosecutor’s Office accuse the opposition of provoking “terrorist acts” that, they said, caused material damage in public places, political party headquarters, schools, hospitals and other places.