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After the government-controlled National Electoral Council (CNE) announced partial results showing a narrow Maduro victory on 29 July, some world leaders and the opposition expressed skepticism of the claimed results or did not recognize the CNE claims; [1] [2] [3] while some countries, such as Russia, China, and Iran, among others, recognized ...
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.
Presidential elections were held in Venezuela on 28 July 2024 to choose a president for a six-year term beginning on 10 January 2025. [2] [3] The election was contentious, with international monitors calling it neither free nor fair, [4] citing the incumbent Maduro administration having controlled most institutions and repressed the political opposition before, during, [2] [5] and after the ...
In July, a delegation of officials from the European External Action Service visited Venezuela to assess the feasibility of deploying electoral observers and wrote an internal report, concluding that the minimum conditions for electoral observation had not been met by that time, citing numerous human rights violations and restrictions on freedoms, although they add that the Venezuelan ...
According to the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV—of which Maduro serves as president), "the Venezuelan people overflowed with love and joy in all states of the country" in the Great National March for Peace and in support of President Nicolás Maduro (Gran Marcha Nacional por la Paz y en apoyo al President Nicolás Maduro). [99]
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). .
Socorro Elizabeth Hernández de Hernández (born 11 March 1952) is a Venezuelan rector of the country's National Electoral Council (CNE). Before the 2017 Venezuelan Constituent Assembly elections, she was involved in changes to polling stations . [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.