The Supreme Court of Venezuela has ruled on the results of the last elections giving the Victory for Nicolas Maduro. The Venezuelan government applauds the decision and speaks of “closing of chapter”while the opposition categorically rejects it and denounces the court’s lack of impartiality.

The news was known during the afternoon of this Thursday. The other Venezuelan court endorsed in an “unequivocal and unrestricted” manner the re-election of Nicolás Maduro as president following the review of the results obtained in the elections of July 28.

The Court’s decision, announced by its president, the Chavista Caryslia Rodríguez, comes 22 days after the Court itself Maduro will request this processthrough an appeal for protection that they never revealed.

Now, the government is celebrating the decision and even talking about “closing a chapter”, despite the fact that inside and outside the country the lack of impartiality of the TSJ, controlled by judges close to Chavez, has been criticized.

It was the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yván Gil, who assured the state channel VTV that “it is clear, the whole process is well described, how it was carried out, the details of the electoral process (…) and it is very important that the world knows that the Constitution, the rule of law, the institutions have triumphed.”

Gil pointed out that this election “has sparked a really significant interest” in the world, demanding respect and “non-interference in Venezuelan internal affairs.”

According to him, the decision of the TSJ shows that the announced victory of Chavismo is “a result adjusted to the will and needs of the Venezuelan people”which can also be confirmed “in the social, economic and political peace” that, he assured, There are in the country. Despite, of course, the protests that broke out after Maduro declared himself the winner.

Lack of impartiality

It is precisely the lack of impartiality of the Venezuelan high court that the candidate of the largest opposition coalition in Venezuela, Edmundo González Urrutia, denounced again hours before the judicial decision. After learning of it, he rejected it.

“Sovereignty resides non-transferable in the town. The organs of the State emanate from popular sovereignty and are subject to it. They will not usurp the truth,” the candidate of the Venezuelan Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD) previously wrote on the social network X. In fact, he warned that the decision that was about to come “would aggravate the crisis.”

After the announcement, González Urrutia spoke out again on the same social network. In a new post, he asserts that “sovereignty resides untransferably in the people. The organs of the State emanate from popular sovereignty and are subject to it.” A message that he completed with the hashtag “#NoUsurparánLaVerdad” and an image with the image of a document from the TSJ with a “Nula” superimposed on it.

The opposition leader has spoken along the same lines, Maria Corina Machado, who reappeared in a massive protest in Caracas -which It spread to the whole world– last weekend. A long-awaited event since he had been missing for two weeks due to threats.

After asking the TSJ to they will give him a “ball”Venezuelan politics has recalled the “new statement” of the UN which states that “both the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) and the National Electoral Council (CNE) lack impartiality and independence, and have played a role within the repressive machinery of the State.”

Likewise, Corina Machado also has called for “Popular Sovereignty” which “is respected”while describing Maduro’s claims as a “coup against the Constitution”: “There is no maneuver that can grant an iota of legitimacy to Nicolás Maduro,” he wrote in his X profile.

Faced with this situation, however, the international community continues demanding the publication of the electoral records with the results disaggregated to confirm Maduro’s re-election, while some countries directly recognize González Urrutia as the winner of the contest.