EU reiterates critical report of the December elections

March 15, 2006

I am sure my colleagues will write about the report on the December elections by the European Union, Quico has already done so. In fact, there is not much difference between what is being said now and what was said by the EU in December. The difference? In December the autocrat was outraged at the conclusions, called them an intromission into the country’s affairs and said the observers were: Liars, cosnpirators and rightwing. This time around there has been nothing of the sort on the part of the autocrat. He has said absolutely nothing.

But more surprising is the take by the Minsiter of Information on the report which says the report states that there is no reason not to trust the Venezuelan automated system, which is not quite what it says, but obviates all of the rest, inlcuding the questioning of the Electoral Registry, the fact that the information on the votes was stored in the memory of the machines, that the fingerprint machines should not be used and that the CNE has to be changed. How can anyone think this was a positive evaluation of the Electoiral Board? This si simply revolutionary idiocy.

But even more remarkable is how the coreepondent of the EFE press agency Emilio Arrojo has essentially become a branch of the Minsitry of Information (MINCI), as he wrote basically a verbatim version of the MINCI. In fact, I read the EFE version in unionradio before I even saw the MINCI one. Unfortunately in the EFE website if you search for Venezuela you get a database error and I can’t find the link. This is not the first time that Arrojo has shown his partiality to the revolution, always writing pro-Government reports that do not convey a true view of what is happening in Venezuela.

But what is amazing is hwo the Government gives it the typical spin, twsiting the report to favor it and forgetting the undiplomatic criticism of December which so upset the Ambassadors from most of the EU in December.The question now is: Will the be invited back for the December elections? If the CNE is not changed, will they accept if they are invited?

We shall see…

This entry was posted on March 15, 2006 at 11:06 pm and is filed under Venezuela.

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