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The National Electoral Council (Spanish: Consejo Nacional Electoral, CNE) is the head of one of the five branches of government of Venezuela under its 1999 constitution. It is the institution that has the responsibility of overseeing and guaranteeing the transparency of all elections and referendums in Venezuela at the local, regional, and national levels.
Venezuela is a federal state; Venezuelan states have governors, which have been elected since 1989 (previously they were appointed by the President). Regional and local elections were introduced following the work in the 1980s of the Commission for the Reform of the State (Comisión para la Reforma del Estado, COPRE). .
The election was originally set to be held on 27 April. However on 19 February 2025, the National Electoral Council moved the election date to 25 May, saying that it was needed to "facilitate and promote the participation of different actors" in the electoral process. [1]
In October 2019, the National Assembly approved to start the appointment of the postulations committee of the new members of the National Electoral Council (CNE). [31] In May 2020, the Committee of Electoral Candidacies, in charge of appointing a new National Electoral Council of Venezuela (CNE), announced that it would suspend its meetings because of the pandemic.
Carter Center - The Carter Center was dismayed by the events that took place in Venezuela in the recent days, condemned the process to elect a National Constituent Assembly because it "was carried out in the complete absence of electoral integrity, posing serious problems of legitimacy, legality, and procedure" and urged the political forces ...
On November 19, the vice-president of the National Electoral Council (CNE), Enrique Márquez, declared that international observers cannot conclude on whether there are violations in the electoral process nor make them public. [46] During election day, eight people were arrested in Lara state for tearing up ballots. [47]
On 4 August 2017, Venezuela convened a new Constituent National Assembly after a special election which was boycotted by the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) and other opposition parties. [6] The new Constituent Assembly is intended to rewrite the constitution; it also has wide legal powers allowing it to rule above all other state institutions.
Parliamentary elections were held in Venezuela on 6 December 2015 [3] to elect the 164 deputies and three indigenous representatives of the National Assembly.They were the fourth parliamentary elections to take place after the 1999 constitution, which abolished the bicameral system in favour of a unicameral parliament, and the first to take place after the death of President Hugo Chávez.