Juan Carlos Delpino, one of the five rectors of the National Electoral Council (CNE) in Venezuela, has broken a prolonged silence to publicly claim that the body to which he belongs, in charge of organizing the presidential elections on July 28, “is not has been meeting since March.” The official has criticized the unilateral decision-making by the president of the electoral body, Elvis Amoroso, and the existence of “internal censors” in the institution.
As on other occasions in the past, the current board of the CNE – a body where decisions are made by majority -, of five members, has three rectors close to the revolutionary ruling party, one of them Amoroso, and two who are opponents, or at least independent. What Delpino demands is that the board be convened, the other members be respected, arguments are discussed and a vote is taken. “The CNE is a collegiate body, and I have the right to vote, to save my vote and to reason about it, and to assert the right of all candidates,” said Delpino, accusing Amoroso of “violating the rights of the CNE rectors.” by making decisions on your own.”
Neither Amoroso nor the rest of the rectors have yet commented on these statements. One of the most delicate resolutions that Amoroso executed without consultation, says Delpino, was to revoke – after receiving a public proposal from his party colleague, Jorge Rodríguez – the invitation extended to the European Union mission to carry out observation international in the presidential elections of this July 28. A measure that violates what was signed in the Barbados Agreement.
Delpino singled out the national executive for “handling the strings of the most important decisions that are being made in the CNE.” Delpino, a lawyer, who chairs the Civil and Electoral Registry Commission of the electoral body, is a very moderate official, who rarely makes public statements and has extensive previous experience participating in the electoral battles organized by Chavismo in recent years.
One of the two directors of the CNE who are unrelated to Chavismo in the formation of the board, – the other is Acme Nogal, close to Un Nuevo Tiempo – Delpino, an independent, had a short political militancy years ago in the opposition party Democratic Action, of line social democrat, with which he maintains ties. He is the son of a well-known union leader from the years of democracy, Juan José Delpino, now deceased.
“The time for prudence is over,” he himself added when observing his past behavior. “It is important for Amoroso to know what the rest of the CNE rectors think. Amoroso believes that the CNE is the same as the Comptroller’s Office (a position that Amoroso held before; in which the disqualification of María Corina Machado took place), where he decided everything.”
Regarding the complaints of internal censorship or filtering of communications, practiced within the Electoral Branch, Delpino continued his vent, after so much time of discretion, pointing out one official in particular: “Secretary Alejandro Meneses independently examines the correspondence that arrives at the offices, and decides which one is received and which is not. This is a State agency; An official has the duty to receive all correspondence and respond to it. If a party wants to deliver correspondence, sometimes the CNE does not receive it. “This is unacceptable from a legal point of view, violates administrative law and is absolutely undemocratic.”
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