The National Electoral Council (CNE) of Venezuela thanked the UN for sending three experts.
This Friday the authorities of the National Electoral Council (CNE) of Venezuela thanked the UN for sending three experts who will accompany the process for the regional and local elections to be held on November 21.
The specialists arrived in the country today, where they met with the CNE rectors, during a meeting led by the president of the entity, Pedro Calzadilla, accompanied by the vice president, Enrique Márquez, and the rectors Tania D’Amelio and Roberto Picón, as well as the alternates Leonel Párica and Conrado Pérez.
The UN panel of experts is made up of Domenico Tuccinardi, head of delegation; Fernanda Abreu and Roly Dávila, who will remain in the country until “several days after” the elections, accompanied by a “support team” that is completed by Jorge Grayeb, Sebastián Weinmann and Carolina Vizcaino, and the special advisor Antonio Arabimar Arze.
As reported by the CNE on his Twitter account, Calzadilla highlighted, during the meeting, that Venezuela has “a vigorous, solid and consistent automated system, which guarantees the exercise of safe and reliable voting” and that the country “has been consolidating a set of electoral guarantees (…) as a product of a process of dialogue and national understanding ”.
The group was sent by the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, “in response to the invitation issued by the Electoral Power.”
The members of the panel will develop a work agenda that includes meetings with electoral authorities, political actors of all tendencies and social organizations, State institutions and national observers.
The specialists arrived in Venezuela this Tuesday, according to the international organization, to evaluate the process “independently and technically”.
“The panel (of experts) that was announced a few weeks ago will carry out an independent and technical evaluation of the electoral system in the context of the regional and municipal elections on November 21,” the UN explained.
The sending of this group was announced by the UN on October 14 in a statement that detailed that the mission of experts responds to a request from the National Electoral Council (CNE).
Then, the UN recalled that this is electoral assistance that has been provided to other countries, at their request, and that the experts “do not issue public statements evaluating the general conduct of the process or its results.”
On November 21, Venezuelans will elect 3,082 positions in total, distributed in 23 governors, 335 mayors, 253 legislators to the Legislative Councils and 2,471 councilors.
From europe
A group of members of the central team of the Electoral Observation Mission of the European Union (EOM-EU) in Venezuela visited this Tuesday the warehouse where the suitcases that carry the voting machines that will be used in the local and regional elections of the next November 21.
“Members of the central team of the EOM-EU Venezuela 2021 visit the warehouse where the suitcases are kept and assembled that carry the voting machines of the National Electoral Council (CNE) that will be used throughout the country in the elections,” wrote the mission on your Twitter account.
The message was accompanied by some photographs in which the observers can be seen supervising these suitcases.
On October 28, the EU-EOM in Venezuela deployed 44 of its members to the different states of the country, under the supervision of the head of the operation, MEP Isabel Santos, coinciding with the start of the electoral campaign.
In the country there is also a central team of 11 people and, later, 34 more observers will join, as well as a delegation of 12 parliamentarians, “some” diplomats and several more observers who will be hired in the country, as detailed Santos then.
The number two of Chavismo, Diosdado Cabello, asked his supporters on Tuesday to distrust the electoral observers of the European Union for the local and regional elections on November 21, since – he assured – his work “is based on discrediting.” of the process, according to a statement from the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV). (I)
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