2024-08-25 03:39:41
Jennie Lincoln, head of the Carter Center’s observer mission, confirmed that Edmundo González won the presidential election in Venezuela.
The head of the Carter Center’s observer mission to the Venezuelan presidential election, Jennie Lincoln, said that Edmundo González won the elections after surpassing Nicolás Maduro’s votes by 2 to 1.
In an interview with CNN Chile, the Carter Center’s Latin American advisor explained that the organization decided to participate as an observer in the elections after receiving three guarantees from the National Electoral Council (CNE) of Venezuela: “Access to the electoral process, freedom of movement and freedom of expression“.
Jennie Lincoln recalled that the center issued a statement stating that “These elections do not meet international standards“, since “before the election we studied for months and noticed a CNE that was not impartial, was very biased and in favor of the government candidate“.
“There were also Problems with voter registration, candidate registration, access to the media and the inability to conduct some election campaigns“, he added.
The Carter Center representative confirmed that the CNE “I had all the information about your system, which is very good (…) and all the necessary minutes are printed to distribute to all witnesses present and to international observers“, although the latter was not carried out.
He recalled at the same time that without complying with any of the announced measuresthe president of the CNE, Elvis Amoroso, declared Maduro’s victory with 51% of the votes.
The Carter Center’s Latin American advisor confirmed on the occasion that At midnight the CNE had 92% of the complete electoral information.
Jennie Lincoln also confirmed that the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), which supports Maduro, had all the minutes since the night of the election.They have a copy of the minutes and have not spoken about it.“, he stressed.
Carter Center confirms Edmundo Gonzalez’s victory
Asked about the percentages obtained by each of the candidates, the representative of the Carter Center said that with the data they have, “It can be confirmed that Edmundo González won with an irreversible result“.
In this regard, he explained that “according to the minutes analyzed, The figure reaches almost 70% for Edmundo González and just over 30% for Nicolás Maduro“.
Lincoln also said that in his vast experience covering elections around the world, I had never seen elections “with this level of irregularities” in Latin America.
Regarding the data provided by the Venezuelan government, he said that “it seems that it does not come from electronic voting. Your data is not the same as that of the analyzed minutes” and that it is “obvious” that the data you provide is not true.
Faced with accusations from the Maduro regime that the Carter Center had lied “shamelessly,” Jennie Lincoln dismissed it and stressed that “We maintain a straight and independent line. They invited us knowing our way of working.“.
“After more than 120 observations around the world, This is the first time we have had a comment of this type.“he said, referring to the Venezuelan government’s accusations that The Carter Center was promoting a coup in that country.
In the final part of the interview, he assured that “I have not seen this level of irregularities in any election.“which she attended as an observer.