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Weekly Report - 08 August 2024 (WR-24-31)

Maduro plays for time, seeks legal validation of ‘victory’

Venezuela’s supreme court (TSJ) began the process of “certifying” the presidential elections this week, summoning each of the competing candidates, while investigating claims by President Nicolás Maduro and his coterie that there had been a foreign cyberattack orchestrated by the opposition to subvert democracy. The national electoral council (CNE) has handed to the TSJ the voter tally sheets which it has refused to publish and which the opposition maintains confirms the comprehensive victory of its candidate Edmundo González. Maduro is hoping that the TSJ’s adjudication will take time and lend a sheen of legitimacy to the CNE’s proclamation of his victory. But the TSJ is not independent. It is in Maduro’s pocket and can be relied upon to deliver the verdict he wants.

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