TSJ refuses to review the ruling that validated Maduro’s re-election

The Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) of Venezuela rejected this Friday a request for constitutional review of the sentence which validated the controversial re-election of Nicolás Maduro in the July 28 elections, the result of which has been denounced as fraudulent and is not recognized by numerous countries.

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The Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court declared inadmissible the request, which had been introduced on September 25 by former presidential candidate Enrique Márquez, in an action that had the support of around twenty dissident leaders of Chavismo and the traditional leadership of the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV).

The decision ensures that the expert opinion of the Electoral Chamber of the TSJ to validate Maduro’s re-election – which could not be followed and verified by representatives of the majority opposition – “was carried out impeccably with due guarantees, through which “The unobjectionable integrity” of the bulletin announced by the National Electoral Council (CNE) was verified, according to the institution.

“All of which was confirmed by this Constitutional Chamber, thus reaffirming that, through the electoral process carried out on July 28, 2024, the will of the Venezuelan people was expressed,” the ruling highlights.

The new decision of the TSJ – made up almost entirely of magistrates related to Chavismo – confirms that the president’s re-election has been certified “categorically.”

In addition, it is recalled that all the electoral material consigned by the CNE “remains in the custody” of the TSJ, which maintains the impossibility of accessing the voting records of each center, something that the international community has asked to review to certify or not the announced result.

The majority opposition – grouped in the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD) – maintains that its standard-bearer, Edmundo González Urrutia, is the winner of the elections based on 83.5% of the electoral records collected by witnesses and polling station members on the day of the elections, documents that have been recognized as valid by a large part of the international community, and classified as “false” by the ruling party.