Delpino questions the attack on the CNE

The rector of the National Electoral Council (CNE) Juan Carlos Delpino doubts that the electoral body’s system was hacked during the presidential elections on July 28as denounced by that organization, which attributed the delay in the announcement of the results to this “attack.”

“I have elements of a technical nature (…) and there is clear evidence that the hacking may never have occurred,” the official told Caracol Newswho published videos of the interview on the social network X this Friday.

According to a recent complaint by the president of the CNE, Elvis Amoroso, the institution suffered “massive cyber attacks from different parts of the world” that “delayed the transmission of the minutes and the process of disclosing the results.”

Delpino said that the country is experiencing a terrible situation of uncertainty that was not resolved by the ruling of the Electoral Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) that confirmed the controversial reelection of Maduro, after a process of validation of the official results, which the CNE has not yet published in a disaggregated manner, as contemplated in its schedule.

According to the rector, the minutes that both the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) and the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD) – the main opposition coalition – claim to have in their possession should have been compared with those of the CNE and a verification should have been made.

“It was not done, it has not been done, and that has brought about this problem, that in Venezuela, even though there may have been an electoral result (…) we continue with uncertainty,” said Delpino, who claims to be “safe” outside the country.

The Carter Center, an election monitor, declared on August 7 that there is no evidence of hacking in the electoral system and reiterated that, after analyzing data, the standard-bearer of the largest opposition coalition, Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, is the winner of the elections.

The opposition bloc insists that the announced result is fraudulent, which it supports with 83.5% of the minutes it claims to have collected from witnesses and members of the polling station on election day, and which – it claims – give González Urrutia the victory.

The opposition later published these minutes on a website, but the government considers them invalid and calls them “false.”