Venezuela’s electoral authority says it has submitted the official election results to the Supreme Court of Justice, days after saying that President Nicolás Maduro had secured a third term in a heavily contested vote overshadowed by allegations of fraud.
The court, which is seen as loyal to Maduro’s authoritarian government, said on Monday night that it had received detailed election reports from the National Electoral Council (CNE).
It had previously given the CNE three days from Friday to hand over the documents, which reportedly include complete results from individual electoral districts and evidence of a cyberattack on the CNE, which the body’s president, Elvis Amoroso, called an “incident” terrorist” which delayed the broadcast. of official data.
The CNE has faced accusations of massive electoral fraud since declaring Maduro the winner of the presidential elections on July 28. The body refused to publish official results and its website has been offline since the vote.
The opposition accuses the government of electoral fraud and claims the victory of its candidate Edmundo González.
The United States and several Latin American countries recognized González as the winner. The European Union said it would not recognize Maduro’s victory without full disclosure of the official voting record.
