Nicolás Maduro, according to the National Electoral Council (CNE), was re-elected last Sunday as president of Venezuela for a third consecutive term, after allegedly obtaining more than 5.15 million votes (51.2%) and defeating Edmundo González.
However, The Carter Center in the United States said in a statement a few days ago that it cannot verify the results of the “dubious” elections. He also said that the election of the Chavista leader “did not meet” the various international standards.
The former national registrar took advantage of the conversation with this media outlet to reveal how Maduro’s supposed victory was brewing. He also stressed that the elections did not have any type of external observation, as the CNE said.
“Everything happens days before. First we have to see who the observers were, I had access to the list of invited activists. There was no electoral monitoring or observation, neither the OAS nor the European Union were present. The only independent observation was that of the Carter Center. Looking at the guests, you find that there were only parties aligned with the Castro-Chavez project and Palestinian movements,” he initially indicated.
Then he added: “In this order of ideas, it is necessary to refute the CNE, since there were no international observers, but activists close to the regime. The CNE website, on the other hand, was never hacked; they programmed it the day before so that it would not divulge any type of information. “Thank goodness people managed to print the minutes with the QR codes.”
Vega was emphatic in saying that the Venezuelan authorities made several mistakes that make it clear that Maduro lost. The Colombian said that he was able to see first-hand that the activists were locked up in the voting stations, but that they never showed him the results.
“They were asking for information on how the results were going and they released bulletin 1 with 80%, where Maduro wins and they say that the difference was irreversible, first mistake. The next day, some activists who were there told me that what they did was invite them early on Monday for the declaration of the election and promulgation of the dictator. What I found out was that, when they were taken on the buses, People asked how much the result had been and they didn’t tell the activists themselves either,” he concluded.
