Venezuela’s electoral authority says it has presented official election results to the Supreme Tribunal of Justice, days after it said President Nicolás Maduro had secured a third term in a hotly contested vote overshadowed by fraud allegations.
The court, which is seen as loyal to Maduro’s authoritarian government, said late on Monday that it received the detailed election reports from the National Electoral Council (CNE).
It had previously given the CNE three days from Friday to hand over the documents, which reportedly include full results from individual voting districts and evidence of a cyberattack on the CNE, which the body’s president Elvis Amoroso called a “terrorist” incident that delayed the transmission of official data.
The CNE has faced allegations of massive electoral fraud since it declared Maduro the winner of the presidential election on July 28. The body has refused to publish official results and its website has been down since the vote.
The opposition is accusing the government of electoral fraud and is claiming victory for its candidate Edmundo González.
The United States and several Latin American countries have recognized González as the winner. The European Union said it would not recognize Maduro’s victory without the full disclosure of the official voting record.
Source Agencies
