Venezuela Has Only One Electoral Power: Tarek William Saab

The Venezuelan Attorney General says that the law will be applied to anyone who interferes with the results of the elections on July 28.

The Attorney General of the Republic of Venezuela, Tarek William Saab, said on Thursday that in the South American country there is a single Electoral Power recognized by the Constitution, And that the Public Prosecutor’s Office will initiate criminal proceedings against anyone who violates the Magna Carta and attempts to supplant it.

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During an interview with the program Notables, which is conducted by the journalist of teleSUR, Jorge Gestoso, Saab stated that the country has six powers and that the electoral power is one. He explained that the National Electoral Council (CNE) is the only body mandated by the Constitution, approved in 1989 in a referendum, to issue election results.

Anyone who does so outside that legal jurisdiction knows he is committing a crime”, William Saab said in reference to the intention expressed by spokesmen of the far-right political party Unitary Democratic Platform that 28J will be governed by its minutes instead of those that emit voting machines, The European Commission has been working on this issue since 1997.

The official made clear that the Public Prosecutor’s Office will act if you try to call fraud and impose a narrative of a situation like this -In the Venezuelan case, it is unlikely that the shielding of its electoral system will attempt to discredit the electoral process.

Live Transmission of the Intervention of the Venezuelan Prosecutor Tarek William Saab, In Spanish

He recalled that during the event of the opposition primary, in October 2023, a colossal fraud was perpetrated. He said that during subsequent interrogations to clarify this shameful fact, opponents confessed to the prosecutors who estimated that about 300,000 people would have attended, They didn’t have a precise record of it because they didn’t use the system that the CNE deploys, and they wanted to make it look like 3 million people had come.

He said that the organizers of that farce burned the documents in which they allegedly registered the participants, so as not to leave traces of their fraudulent intention.

William Saab announced that for the elections of next 28 July, a total of 1,236 officials will be deployed in the elections to prevent any attempt to hinder process.

He stressed that the officials will remain for 24 hours in all fiscal headquarters to monitor in real time what is going to happen.

He recalled that in many countries of the world there are three powers, the executive, the legislative and the judicial, but stressed that Venezuela escapes from the traditional. “Venezuela has two new powers, the electoral and the citizen, a different structure that allows the citizen to establish contact with them, and I would add a sixth power, the people’s power”, he asserted.

Saab stated that “Venezuela is today in the crosshairs, not because of the elections on July 28, but also because of the natural reserves we have, because it is one of the richest countries in the world that broke free from the colonial yoke of the United States” after the arrival of Commander Hugo Chávez Frías.

He also mentioned that one of his functions as prosecutor is to avoid impunity, anarchy, promote prevention, workshops, talks and forums. He said that for seven years “we have served one million 300 thousand people” in contacts with the citizenry in the neighborhoods, communes and their usual spaces.