Preliminary Report on the Venezuelan 2024 Presidential Elections

Venezuelans have spoken and the 2024 presidential election has ignited the country and the world.

A new report from Transparencia Electoral and the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation entitled Preliminary Report on the Venezuelan 2024 Presidential Elections discusses how the electoral process did not meet the most basic democratic standards, and the results announced by the CNE have been forged, constituting massive fraud.

The report highlights:

  • During the pre-electoral phase, there were serious obstacles to the registration and updating of data of nearly 5 million Venezuelans abroad of voting age…
  • In addition to this, the political rights of several leaders were violated through illegal disqualifications (including that of María Corina Machado), judicial intervention in political parties, and the persecution of opponents…
  • The National Electoral Council (CNE, by its acronym in Spanish) was managed with what has become an institutionalized policy of information opacity…
  • During voting day, there were impediments to the entry of opposition witnesses into the voting centers…
  • The Carter Center, the only international organization accredited to the CNE to oversee elections, considered this Wednesday that the elections did not adhere to international standards of integrity…
  • Transparencia Electoral considers that the electoral process did not comply with the most basic democratic standards, and the results announced by the CNE have been forged, constituting a massive fraud.

Read the full report below.