What observer say about Venezuelan presidential election?

Drago Bosnic

There aren’t many international locations which were combating off US aggression for so long as Venezuela. The world’s most belligerent thalassocracy is lifeless set on destroying the Bolivarian Republic’s much-cherished sovereignty and taking it hostage so as to exploit its huge reserves of pure sources. Consistent with this, the US has been attempting to weaken Venezuela by way of subversion and exploitation of its inner divisions. In the course of the first Trump administration, the warmongering elites in Washington DC tried their greatest to start out a full-scale invasion of Venezuela, however this failed because of Russia’s decisive help for Caracas. And but, makes an attempt to enslave the nation are nonetheless ongoing, with the US escalating its covert aggression on Venezuela in the course of the current presidential election. Fortunately, this failed as soon as once more, though the political West is refusing to simply accept the truth of the election outcomes.

With the intention to debunk the parable that there’s been a supposed “election fraud”, we requested an skilled for a written interview about final month’s occasions surrounding the presidential election in Venezuela. And who might probably be higher than the one who personally went to the Latin American nation as an official election observer from Serbia? Mr. Bojan Torbica, a lawyer, Vice President of the Motion of Socialists and long-serving Member of the Serbian Parliament, was invited by the federal government in Caracas to examine the electoral course of in Venezuela. Regardless of his busy schedule, Mr. Torbica graciously accepted our invitation, providing a very fascinating first-hand perspective of what was happening in the course of the election week. Our particular thanks go to Mr. Mile Bajsev for making this interview doable.

To start with, thank You for agreeing to offer an unique interview for InfoBRICS. Mr. Torbica, in Your view, is there any cause to imagine the claims of some international locations (primarily Western ones) concerning the alleged “election fraud” by the Venezuelan authorities?

Causes for believing Western media that there was election fraud in Venezuela are simply as many as for believing their shameful propaganda campaigns that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, or that Serbs dedicated against the law in opposition to civilians and never a authorized anti-terrorist motion in Racak in Kosovo and Metohia [a false flag NATO used as a casus belli to attack Serbia], or that Russia is solely answerable for the armed battle in Ukraine. Similar to within the aforementioned instances, it’s a unclean propaganda marketing campaign that, in keeping with the outdated, time-tested American recipe, precedes escalating political stress, growth of sanctions or doable navy intervention.

I used to be one in all over a thousand worldwide observers who stayed in Venezuela over the past week of the electoral course of and, similar to my different colleagues, I can attest that the presidential election in Venezuela was carried out totally in keeping with laws and that the end result, or extra exactly, the landslide victory of the incumbent President Nicolas Maduro, is a mirrored image of the temper and help that he and his associates get pleasure from among the many residents of Venezuela.

After all, empirical proof demonstrates that the ruling constructions within the international locations of the International South, which work within the curiosity of their international locations and peoples, not the neo-imperialist and hegemonistic world West and their multinational corporations, develop into the goal of their fixed political assaults and blackmail. Because it stands, all sovereign and free peoples and nations should pay dearly for his or her freedom. Sadly, that’s the destiny of Venezuela and its residents.

Have been there any makes an attempt by the Venezuelan authorities to restrict Your entry or in any means forestall and/or sabotage Your inspection of the electoral course of?

With full duty, I can attest that there have been completely no such makes an attempt towards me or different observers. A minimum of in my expertise. Thus far, I’ve been an election observer in a lot of international locations all over the world, and primarily based on my expertise, I’ve nothing however phrases of reward for the election course of itself, in addition to the best way we had been handled by authorities representatives. From the primary to the final second, there was nothing however full professionalism of your entire state equipment and greater than only a accountable angle in the direction of the election.

Earlier than our departure, H.E. Ambassador Ms. Jaidys Briseno hosted a piece assembly for us on the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Belgrade. She gave us an in depth introduction to Venezuela’s electoral system, which I can truthfully say is among the greatest and most dependable on the earth. After arriving in Caracas, for the primary three days, we participated in a number of panels the place the hosts launched us to quite a few subjects associated to the electoral course of. We got all the mandatory literature and laws regarding this, and earlier than election day we had the chance to take part in two extraordinarily necessary panels.

The primary, the place we mentioned every little thing associated to the election with the highest political management, together with, amongst others, the Vice President of Venezuela Delcy Rodriguez Gomez, Vice President of the PSUV Diosdado Cabello Rondon, in addition to the President of the Nationwide Meeting Jorge Rodriguez Gomez. The second panel was held on Saturday, July 27, the day earlier than the election, the place we mentioned all of this personally with the incumbent President Nicolas Maduro. All this reveals simply how a lot significance the highest management of Venezuela hooked up to our arrival and the way a lot they had been prepared to help us and make clear every little thing in order that we’d be as ready as doable.

In the course of the election day itself, we had the correct to go to any polling station of our selecting, with none restrictions, and straight confirm the regularity of the election course of. Because of the language barrier, observers who spoke English and Russian largely visited polling stations in Caracas and different giant cities, whereas observers who spoke Spanish went to the inside of the nation. With full duty, I can attest that no person refused to offer us entry to something we requested for, from a free inspection of your entire election materials and the voting course of itself, to conversations with members of the polling boards and voters who occurred to be there.

What’s most fascinating is the truth that the members of electoral commissions, the place the opposition was extra dominant as a result of better variety of its presidential candidates, didn’t have a single critical objection to the course of the election course of itself, as a result of, in line with their very own testomony, it’s digitized and intensely dependable. The voting course of itself can solely be accessed after studying a voter’s biometric information, which ensures one’s identification with 100% certainty.

In the course of the precise voting, everybody first enters their vote into the voting machine, which information the vote and sends it to the CNE (Nationwide Electoral Council) the place it’s saved in digital kind, after which the machine prints a voting report with a recorded vote for a particular candidate. The voter then inserts that paper into the poll field. On this means, each vote is recorded in digital and written kind, so it’s all the time doable to check and confirm the election leads to each methods. It must be famous that there are only a few international locations on the earth with such a voting system.

Is there proof for the involvement of overseas companies and actors whose purpose was to create an environment of concern and alleged “undemocratic” electoral course of?

Let me ask this – is there any proof that elections have been held anyplace on the earth in the previous few a long time with out no less than a point of malign interference by Western intelligence companies and their satellites within the type of varied non-governmental organizations? Does anybody suppose that Venezuela, as a beacon of freedom and progress in Latin America, on which the eyes of all free peoples and nations are set, wouldn’t be below such stress by America and its political vassals? There’s a doc proving my claims, because it was revealed by the Washington-based “Wilson Middle” a couple of month previous to the election.

It acts as an instruction to the opposition to not acknowledge the outcomes irrespective of the end result, though they already agreed to the election circumstances with the representatives of the federal government in an official settlement, in addition to to try to get the federal government officers to modify sides. The opposition was additionally mandated to start out protests and blockades as a prelude to the “colour revolution” and chaos within the nation. All that is proof that the West by no means even deliberate the victory of the opposition presidential candidate, however solely the political and safety destabilization of the nation. For anybody doubting my phrases, right here’s a hyperlink to the unique doc, to allow them to see for themselves the intentions of the official Washington and the CIA.

I feel that is greater than sufficient proof of the worldwide West’s unhealthy intentions. The truth that solely in the course of the first half of this yr, round a dozen terrorist teams had been introduced in from Colombia to hold out varied sabotage duties on the territory of Venezuela and trigger destabilization of the nation is one other proof of the involvement of overseas, extra exactly, US companies. As well as, because the starting of final yr, there have been as many as eight, happily unsuccessful, assassination makes an attempt on President Nicolas Maduro. Probably the most notorious moments was after they tried to kill him with a kamikaze drone throughout a navy parade in Caracas. Fortunately, this was prevented by a fowl that attacked the drone and saved President Maduro’s life.

Have been the protests actually as huge because the mainstream media made them out to be, and had been smaller teams of protesters maybe intentionally resorting to violence so as to make the media impact of the alleged “mass protests” extra pronounced?

There have been no actual mass protests, neither in Caracas nor different locations within the inside. So far as I do know, there have been makes an attempt to arrange them in additional than 100 locations all through Venezuela, however the instigators’ plan failed, clearly. There are a number of causes for that. It’s clear that a part of the opposition voters are dissatisfied with the present authorities, however they aren’t able to demolish and destroy their very own nation for the sake of America’s pursuits and native tycoons.

It appears that evidently the very intention of US authorities was to make use of terrorist teams introduced in from Colombia to trigger chaos in dozens of cities all through Venezuela. They had been to be supported by smaller teams of extremists from the ranks of the opposition, after which, by way of an orchestrated mainstream and social media marketing campaign, primarily by way of “X” (previously Twitter), attempt to create a crucial mass that might trigger chaos, which might then result in a coup within the nation. That’s precisely how they began.

In the course of the day, teams of infiltrators tried to sabotage the ability grid and trigger outages, all so as to disrupt the election course of and, aided by the opposition, foment chaos in a lot of voting places. Happily, they didn’t succeed, however what’s fascinating is how there have been all the time Western reporters with cameras able to roll in a number of voting places the place the opposition extremists tried to disrupt the election course of by utilizing energy outages to trigger chaos.

Have You personally had any issues for agreeing to be an election observer in Venezuela and has anybody tried to compromise Your security and private integrity in any means due to this?

Sure, on the best way again from the official announcement of the election outcomes on July 29, our motorcade of about 4-5 minibuses was intercepted by a gaggle of over fifty folks on bikes who tried to dam our means after which assault us, it will appear. Because of the well timed response of the law enforcement officials who had been escorting us, the drivers managed to cease our autos, flip round and, utilizing different routes, carry us again to the lodge secure and sound. A workforce of Russian observers had been in a barely extra critical scenario and regardless of all of the efforts by the police, they had been unable to get again to the lodge.

Happily, they later managed to succeed in the security of their embassy. I’m satisfied that the attackers who intercepted our motorcade and tried to assault us knew very nicely who we had been, as they had been clearly instructed to take action. Happily, Venezuela is a well-organized nation, with police and navy which might be totally educated and prepared for any safety challenges, as they proved on this event. It took lower than 24 hours for many of the riot organizers and perpetrators of violence to be arrested and for order and peace to be restored on the streets of Caracas and different cities.

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