Venezuelan Supreme Court ratifies results of the CNE declaring Nicolás Maduro reelected president
The Venezuelan Supreme Court ruled on the contentious appeal filed on the 28J elections and validated the result of the CNE, which declared Nicolás Maduro reelected president for the 2025-2031 term. teleSUR
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00:00We're looking at images from the Supreme Court of Justice and the authorities are entering
00:15the chamber.
00:16We are about to listen to the statement that the authorities are going to make regarding
00:23the process that is being carried out at the highest court of Venezuela.
00:28Let's listen.
00:33The President of the Supreme Court of Justice is about to pronounce herself.
00:41Good morning for all of you.
00:47I begin to thank your attendance and your appearance and for excellent ambassadors and
01:00international organizations and representatives of the diplomatic corp accredited in the Bolivarian
01:09Republic of Venezuela, Dr. Tarek William Saab, President of the Council and Attorney
01:17General, Dr. Elvis Amoroso, President of the National Electoral Council, Dr. Alfredo Ruiz,
01:27President Bootsman, Citizen Ivan Hill, Foreign Minister, Dr. Reinaldo Munoz, Procurator of
01:38the Republic and citizens, directors of the National Electoral Council, citizens, deputy
01:49ministers of the Popular Ministry for Foreign Relations, distinguished representatives of
01:59media outlets, ladies and gentlemen.
02:05Today on August 22, we have been summoned here to the headquarters of the judicial power
02:13to share information of interest.
02:17I want to take advantage of these words to thank the whole staff participating in this
02:28exhausting auditing process for their professionalism and the support demonstrated and the high
02:38training showed by the national and international experts following the legacy of Libertator
02:46Simon Bolivar.
02:48The constituent power gave birth to the nominated judicial power to dedicate and constitutionalize
03:02the transcendence of the public opinion in the public affairs and in addition, it created
03:11the electoral chamber in the Supreme Court of Justice as an entity to discuss electoral
03:23controversies.
03:24The Supreme Court of Justice considers to vectorize the commitment and the will of providing
03:35justice to guarantee peace and tranquility of the Republic.
03:40That's why we won't stop in our sacred holy mission, in function of which I read the final
03:54judgment that decides and concludes in a definite way the contentious appeal regarding the elections
04:08on July 28th.
04:11Now I read the final judgment.
04:17For the reasons hereby exposed, this electoral chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice administering
04:25justice on behalf of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, by the authority abided by law
04:33declared first, it is ratified the competency of this electoral chamber any time it was
04:41here, the contentious appeal accepted to verify and validate, to certify unequivocally the
04:56results of the electoral process held on July 28th, 2024, and so it is the attachment
05:07of this action in compliance with the Article 297 of the Constitution of the Bolivarian
05:14Republic of Venezuela, and the Article 27 of the Court of Justice that attributed the
05:27judicial control of actions of the parties that participate in the aforesaid election.
05:38About the rights of elections, it is competent to say that it was asked to verify which has
05:52been the will of the turnout in the presidential elections, in which it was evident a massive
06:07cyber attack against the electoral system, which resulted in a crystal clear transgression to the
06:17electoral power, and it is such competency, it is ruled by the Supreme Court, and to strengthen
06:32the electoral culture as a novelty means in this position of our citizenship for the state to
06:44guarantee its protagonism as it is stipulated in this electoral chamber. Beyond our borders,
06:53examining the right conferred in similar situations for the election of head of state,
07:04other nations exercising their jurisdiction have issued pronouncements about the electoral
07:14controversies, as it is the case of the United States of Mexico, and they issued the judgment
07:28on the election in August 2024, declaring the elections and guaranteeing the social peace by
07:41this means. Likewise, it occurred in the last process of presidential elections held in Brazil
07:50on October 30, 2022, in which development there were claims referred to electoral fraud, in which
08:01the High Court of Justice interfered as the maximum authority in electoral controversies,
08:11which the court made decisions in an attempt to avoid a crisis in that country, and in the
08:22elections in presidential elections in 2000, the results were controversial, and the situation
08:39was solved by the Supreme Court of Justice, so it is clear that ahead of electoral controversies,
08:51the Supreme Court of Justice constitutes the last entity for its resolution as guarantors of the
09:01state of rights, and that the National Electoral Council, as a ruling authority of the Bolivarian
09:13Republic of Venezuela, said on August 5, 2024, appeared with the main rectors headed by its
09:25president, Eduardo Moro, Elvis Amoroso, in compliance with the request, with this request
09:38by the electoral chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice, and they delivered all material
09:46attached to the elections on July 28, as said by the rector Juan Carlos de Opino, who didn't
09:58appear before the Supreme Court of Justice of Venezuela, and he didn't justify his absence
10:08so having been summoned by August 8, 2024, the 38 political parties have been appearing,
10:27and only 33 delivered the affidavits required. The first in Venezuela, movement,
10:40Unidad Acción Democrática, Republican Movement, Red Flag, Derecha Democrática Popular,
10:51and so she's mentioning the political parties that appeared before this court.
11:01United Socialist Party of Venezuela, Tupamaru,
11:20Green Party of Venezuela, Electoral Movement of the People,
11:31Mifishar Party, Communist Party of Venezuela, Popular Unity of Venezuela, and Alliance for
11:39the Change, and likewise, of the 10 presidential candidates, 9 appeared before the court. Citizens,
11:49Antonio Carrin, Enrique Marquez, Jose Brito, Luis Eduardo Martinez, Daniel Ceballos,
11:54Javier Bertucci, Claudio Fermin, Benjamin Ronceu, and President Nicolás Maduro.
12:00So, it is being submitted record that the political parties, pencil party,
12:14and they didn't deliver the required documents, and Enrique Marquez didn't deliver the affidavits,
12:26so it is decided that all electoral material delivered by the National Electoral Council
12:34and the political parties are safeguarded in this electoral chamber of the Supreme Court
12:42of Justice. Third, that the former candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, didn't attend any
12:52stages of this process at which he was subpoenaed, so he didn't comply with the order of the Supreme
13:03Court of Justice, which is the highest entity in Venezuela, and he didn't deliver any tally
13:11sheets, or any list of witnesses, or any electoral material whatsoever. So, in consequence, he
13:18disregarded the order, and he disrespected the authority of the Supreme Court of Justice,
13:28so his behavior, that's why there are the following sanctions against him, and a citizen,
13:41José Luis Cartaya, representative of the Mesa, and Simón Calzadilla, representative of the Movement
13:50of Venezuela, all of them members of the Alliance, a unitary platform, a democratic unitary platform,
13:58that support a citizen, Edmundo González Urrutia, they didn't deliver any electoral material,
14:08arguing that they didn't have any electoral documentation, so they expressed that they
14:17don't have tally sheets, or any list of witnesses of the polling stations, and so it is assumed
14:29that they didn't participate in the polling stations of this election, contrary to what
14:40is recorded in the videos of their attendance. So, national experts and international experts,
14:47it constitutes a full proof of this contentious electoral appeal, referred to the auditing
14:59process of all the documents delivered by the National Electoral Council, in physics or digital,
15:12related to the elections on July 28th, and so executed in compliance with the highest technical
15:24standards, in which, once it was examined, all material collected, such auditing determined that,
15:37on the grounds of the results obtained in the auditing process, we can conclude that the
15:47bulletins issued by the National Electoral Council, regarding the presidential election in 2024,
15:55are backed up by the tally sheets issued by the electoral machines of the electoral process.
16:05Likewise, these tally sheets maintain full coincidence with the registrations of the
16:12database of all national totalization centers. Fifth, this electoral chamber declares that the
16:25present contentious appeal, on the grounds of the auditing process carried out and verified,
16:36that, on the grounds of the briefing of national and international experts,
16:48highly trained, who guaranteed the maximum level of excellence, this electoral chamber
16:59certifies that the auditing electoral material validates the results of the election on July 28th,
17:16issued by the National Electoral Council, in which resulted elected citizen Nicolás Maduro Moros,
17:24as president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela for the 2025-2031 term, and so it is decided.
17:38Sixth, it is urged the National Electoral Council to publish the final results of elections on July 28th,
17:492024, for the election of the president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela,
17:56to be issued in the Gazette of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, which is stipulated in the article 165,
18:09which says, Article 155, the National Electoral Council will order the publication of results of the electoral processes
18:25in the Electoral Gazette of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, within the 30 days after the proclamation of the elected candidates.
18:40It is submitted a certified copy of this final judgment to the Attorney General of the Republic,
18:51citizen Tarek William Saab, to the ends that be included to the penal investigations about the irregular events
19:03that this institution anticipates, as we cited, to determine the responsibility of the case,
19:16ahead of the uncertainty caused by the population of those forgery of public documents,
19:28instigation of disobedience of laws, and conspiracy. I close quotations. In virtue of documents allegedly false or forged,
19:42uploaded in the website Presidential Results,
19:51as well as this massive cyber attack denounced against the National Electoral Council,
20:01that could link, allege criminal behavior and crimes against the judicial order,
20:14issued and registered, and communicate and comply with the requested, signed and sealed in the Electoral Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice,
20:31and to 200 justices, President Carisla Beatriz Rodríguez Rodríguez, Vice President Fanny Beatriz Márquez Cordero,
20:49and Justice Inocencio Antonio Figueroa, and Clerk Intiana López, that's all.
21:01The President of the Supreme Court of Justice of Venezuela,
21:23in the statement that she has just announced, an important statement that confirmed
21:36the results published after the 28th election in Venezuela, the results that had been originally published by
21:48the National Electoral Council, and these were the images we were saying, we will confirm the important announcement among other topics,
22:04the important announcement that was marked by the tribunal was that they were ratifying the original results,
22:12the results that were presented by the National Electoral Council on the July 28th elections,
22:19that announced Nicolás Maduro Moros as President, re-elected President of Venezuela.
22:26That was the highlight, the main points of the statement that we have just heard at the Supreme Court of Justice.
22:35We're looking at images from the top court, let's recall we've just heard from Carisla Rodríguez,
22:41President of the Supreme Court of Justice of Venezuela, also President of the electoral chamber,
22:46that has been dealing with the electoral process,
22:51and the contentious appeal that was filed in order for the Supreme Court
22:54to be able to handle and investigate in full all of the things that had to do with the electoral process.
23:09Now, we are looking at, we're listening to the...
23:19Activity carried out by the Electoral Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice, which issued the final judgment,
23:31unprecedented and historical for the country, I consider as Attorney General of the Republic
23:37that the final judgment must be complied with in all its parts, and it validates the electoral
23:45results issued by the only authority of the country, which is the National Electoral Council,
23:51in the terms already known, and among other things, it expresses clearly the remission of such
24:03final judgment, in which in one of its items mentions a communique of the Prosecutor's Office
24:14that was related to the ongoing investigation, which we will inform in the upcoming hours
24:23about the usurpation of functions and electoral crimes, conspiracy among others,
24:34caused by or led by the ones who were planning to disregard the legitimate authority
24:44to issue the results of the National Electoral Council, and use the electoral theme to escalate
24:52the criminal terrorist actions, which has no peaceful character, and we denounced,
24:59we already denounced and processed and sentenced, that are in full process, and that's why,
25:07parallel to those actions, which are going punishable, in which we noted the terrorist
25:17crimes led by the known comanditos, all of them were committing crimes, those 27 deaths, I have
25:31added two motorbike drivers who were crashing due to these hate crimes by these criminals,
25:46so in parallel with this investigation that we have arrested several criminals, we have been
25:55using all judicial resources and complying with that final judgment to advance and deepen those
26:05investigations that will have results, and we will announce it in due time.
26:12Thank you very much, and it is also the foreign minister here, representing the diplomatic
26:20corps, what's been happening here in the electoral chamber of the Supreme Court of
26:25Justice, what's your message? Well, first, I want to thank the president of the Supreme Court of
26:31Justice, the president of the electoral chamber, who has exposed before the world, and Venezuela
26:41here, they were attending the whole diplomatic corps in Venezuela, and so the president closes
26:51an electoral process with this final judgment, and we have seen, at an international level, it has
26:59been close attention to this contentious appeal, we have a contentious appeal on the elections,
27:09we have received lots of congratulations about our electoral process, and also, as we have
27:18denounced the coup d'état that was attempted on Venezuela, it was planned by overseas,
27:27and it is clear, it is described, the whole process as how it was held, the competencies
27:36that has the Supreme Court of Justice, and the competencies of the National Electoral Council,
27:41and it is very important for the world to know that in Venezuela, it has triumphed the
27:47constitution of the Bolivarian Republic, and it has triumphed its constitution. Once again, we
27:55demand respect, we demand non-interference in our internal affairs, as you can see
28:02live on TV, in TV, are matters that have a solution within the framework of our laws,
28:11our constitution, and we have reflected in the final judgment of the Supreme Court of Justice
28:16after the auditing process, after the express labor, we have seen this in a peaceful, social,
28:25and political daily life in Venezuela, and so the actions, the violent actions, that
28:32committed by some criminal groups on July 20th and 31st, how peace was re-established, and this
28:43peace we are living by product of the electoral result, attached to the will of the Venezuelan
28:51people, we express the world peace, Venezuela is continuing at peace, we are building peace,
28:57and the Venezuelan government has called to some dialogue at the level of economic and political
29:07sectors, we are going to go through an electoral process about the communes,
29:14and Venezuela is at peace and tranquility, and we have transmitted that to the whole world.
29:19Thank you very much, Foreign Minister, this is a very important statement, and it has triumphed
29:25to peace, and it is present here in this appearance, representatives of the moral power,
29:35and we want to listen to the opinion about this final judgment of the Supreme Court of Justice,
29:43which has been ratifying the institutionality of the state of Venezuela. While it is important
29:49final judgment of the Supreme Court of Justice, that on one side ratifies what determined the
29:57electoral power, and ahead of the situation that could generate some hesitation, it sort out any
30:06doubts, because that is the function, that is the role of the electoral chamber, to sort out
30:12this electoral controversy, guaranteeing that in Venezuela the vote, the political participation
30:18is a human right, a fundamental human right, and it is important this final judgment,
30:23not only the results of the National Electoral Council, but also this final judgment of the
30:29Supreme Court of Justice, that after the examination of all tally sheets, all evidence
30:36presented, and this decision is going to be a guarantee, and the goal is to respect mutually,
30:44to respect all regular channels, to sort out conflicts that have nothing to do with violence,
30:50and guarantee, as is already given, the guarantee of peace and respect of all,
30:56that is precisely the respect of human rights. Thank you very much, and it is the end by the
31:07first opinions of the Attorney General of the Republic, and in which there were
31:16validated and certified the results of the electoral process, and the winning of President
31:23Nicolás Maduro Moros, and these are the first impressions, the first opinions of
31:30this final judgment, in which diplomatic corps have been appearing, and all...
31:42We were listening to the Supreme Court of Justice. First, the President of the Supreme
31:47Court of Justice of Venezuela, and also of the electoral chamber, Caricia Rodríguez,
31:52the President of the top court, ratified the jurisdiction and competence of the
31:57tribunal regarding the appeal presented before the court, and the most important highlight of
32:02this message was that the top court, after the process initiated by the contentious appeal that
32:08was filed before the court, ratified the results that were published by the electoral, the National
32:15Electoral Council, that were the results that were presented on July 28th, that gave Nicolás
32:23Maduro as a winner. Afterwards, we were listening to Attorney General Willie Tarek Williams have,
32:29and also Foreign Minister Ivan Gil, giving their impressions on the matter, and the importance of
32:36this validation, this statement that was presented by the Supreme Court of Justice.
32:43We continue looking at different interviews that are happening right now at the Supreme
32:48Court of Justice. Let's see.
33:18that the results were, the results seen by all Venezuelans, and we have to expect
33:26the issuance of the results, and those people who were determined to change
33:37the legitimate results, respect these results, and live at peace here.
33:45Well, this, we share with you all their opinions about this final
33:53judgment of the Supreme Court of Justice, and we're looking
34:07the chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice, a couple of interviews were being made.
34:15Let's recall that the most important thing that, the most important thing that is happening right
34:21now at the Supreme Court of Justice, we were looking at live images. We will continue following
34:27the most important thing. The Supreme Court of Justice has just presented its statement on the
34:33investigation that was carrying regarding the contentious appeal that was filed over the
34:39electoral process, and the highlight of the statement is that the top court of Venezuela
34:45has ratified, it has validated the results that were previously presented by the National
34:53Electoral Council on July 28th that gave the victory, the electoral victory to President
35:00Nicolás Maduro. This was one of the most important statements that were being left.
35:06Let's go to live images in Caracas. Let's see.
35:13Today, the electoral chamber, and mostly in the international arena, we know the ALBA countries
35:20have respected the electoral results, but let's remember that there are international voices
35:25joining this regarding narrative. And so, what's your stance after hearing the final judgment
35:35about the ALBA? Well, as a secretary of ALBA, it is to inform and send copies of the 10
35:46governments of the ALBA TCP and even the social movements in ALBA. And so, it renders accounts
35:55how the Venezuelan institutionality took the challenge of giving confidence to the country,
36:06in first place, to the international community about what was happening on July 28th election,
36:13and the ALBA countries, as you have said, congratulated the victory of President Nicolás
36:19Maduro. And of course, when the own president appealed to the Supreme Court of Justice,
36:28and it developed this electoral contentious appeal, the ALBA countries have followed this
36:36process. We have been informing the process. And so, it is being closed. This chapter has
36:46already occurred in several nations, as Mexico, United States, in which the highest entity,
36:59the Supreme Court of Justice, gave its last word with the final judgment. And we think that the
37:05Supreme Court of Justice has been an example. And of course, the judicial powers of the ALBA
37:11countries will be informed about this process that could guarantee peace, not only in Venezuela,
37:18but being an example for other countries in the world. Thank you very much. And we thank the
37:27We were listening to Jorge Arreaza again give his statement from Caracas, Venezuela, from the
37:33Supreme Court of Justice, as they continue to analysis the important statement that the top
37:42court just issued on the result of the presidential elections, confirming the results of the National
37:49Electoral Council. Let's continue looking at different impressions and different interviews
37:56that are happening right now at the Supreme Court of Justice. We were just listening to
38:01Jorge Arreaza, and this is Freddy Nañez.
38:07An act of the highest institutionality that ratifies the republican character of our processes,
38:15of our institutions, I insist. And besides, it has ratified that everything that has been the
38:24contentious appeal has been duly informed, and it has been a public fact, a transparent fact,
38:33and it's being threatened the Venezuelan institutionality. And it's crystal clear that
38:42all answers to the political contingency in our country are already written and in the
38:49constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, which are abided by the Venezuelan
38:57will. Our institutions are strengthened and are in compliance with what's happening on the street.
39:05It's a spirit of peace, of normality, and the Venezuelan accord and political resolution,
39:15any conflicts being held here. And so right now, let's make a great effort to communicate,
39:25to disseminate in a truthful character this event, this unprecedented event, which will be
39:34recalled in the history as an event of the highest democratic level. All Venezuelans,
39:43we hope this ship that arrives at its port within the framework of laws and democracy,
39:57with this final judgment so clear and steadfast, it is strengthening our electoral power because
40:05it has been an electoral power that despite the cyber attacks that continue suffering,
40:14provided the information, the tally sheets, with a unique electoral system guaranteed
40:21despite the ongoing cyber coup d'etat, guaranteed the will of the Venezuelan people,
40:30which was safeguarded by institutionality, I am very pleased about these results.
40:36And with this final judgment, it is ratified the institutionality of Venezuela,
40:41and it is an example for the world that the Venezuelans are responsible and have the capacity
40:47to sort out its own problems without any intervention. And that's the big message
40:55that we could highlight at the international arena. Definitely, there's the importance of
41:03attending this event, the diplomatic accredited corps, and the diplomatic corps have been
41:10witnessing how institutions work and how this principle of sovereignty, of self-determination
41:19of the peoples work here, which guarantees that we have an international right. And besides these
41:26events, it is part of a precedent that has occurred in several countries of the world,
41:33in which when there is an electoral controversy, the Supreme Court of Justice decides and
41:41is part of the problem. But all powers are part of a system of the Republic. And
41:52we have to highlight that the President of the Republic, which is a constituent,
41:58one of the Venezuelans that were able to write chapters of this constitution
42:06when it was the time, he appealed to constitution and search a democratic resolution, a political
42:13resolution, a Republican resolution. And there it is the highest, the goodness of the
42:25head of state, in which he prevailed the sovereignty of the country and the peace of
42:34Venezuela. And so, as a result, this is a thorough process. Till today, the Supreme
42:44Court of Justice has given information about all moments of this process, of this auditing process,
42:53and all Venezuelans have been very invested. And so, as Ministry of Communications,
43:01this, what has been happening, could be disseminated in the international media outlets,
43:10and we could break, we could disrupt the communications blockade which have tried to
43:21mitigate this electoral process. So, it is a call for all media outlets to disseminate the actual
43:29events in this, to take the truth of Venezuela, to tell the truth of Venezuela, and it's going
43:38to be an example for the whole world. And we, with the statements of the Deputy Minister of
43:46Communications, and the Supreme Court of Justice of Venezuela, we were just also
43:59listening to different authorities in Venezuela reacting after the important announcement,
44:07the important statement of the Supreme Court of Justice that validated the results presented by
44:16the National Electoral Council. So, let's recall the importance of what we were listening right
44:22now. We were listening to, in first hand, the President of the Supreme Court of Justice,
44:26Caricia Rodriguez, from Venezuela. Amid the statement, one of the most important things
44:33that she said was that the top court, the Venezuelan top court, ratified the jurisdiction
44:39and competence of the tribunal regarding the appeal presented before the court over the
44:46elections of July 28th. The most important thing is that they ratified the results of the National
44:51Electoral Council. And after this validation, we were listening to different authorities from
44:58Venezuela reacting. We listened to the Attorney General, Tarek William Saab, also Foreign Minister
45:04Iván Gil, also Jorge Arreaza from OVACCP, and also Freddy Náñez. They were all highlighting
45:12the importance of these statements that have been presented by the top court. Let's recall that also
45:20before doing this, the President of the Supreme Court of Justice, Caricia Rodriguez, also stated
45:26that it verified the competence of the top court on electoral matters, also giving examples on
45:35other countries that have presented similar results in similar situations. So, we will bring
45:41upcoming information, more information on this matter in upcoming news briefs.
45:46So, stay tuned with Teluser English.