There is no appeal against the electoral ruling of the Supreme Court of Venezuela
The Electoral Chamber of the TSJ “is the highest judicial authority in electoral matters, explained Judge Caryslia Beatriz Rodríguez
The chief justice of Venezuela’s Supreme Court, Caryslia Beatriz Rodríguez, warned that the ruling on the July 28 elections is final and binding. In other words, the decision cannot be appealed and must be enforced.
“This Electoral Chamber continues the expertise initiated on August 5, 2024, to issue the final judgment that responds to the present appeal and is final,” stressed Rodríguez. The Electoral Chamber of the TSJ “is the highest judicial authority in electoral matters, therefore its decisions are final and mandatory,” she explained.
She also mentioned that the TSJ had completed the “collection of electoral documents from the various factors involved in the July 28 presidential election process” and that the court’s judges are now “focusing on examining all electoral materials with evidentiary value recorded in physical and/or digital form.” The judges will also review the alleged “mass cyberattack” on the National Electoral Council’s system with the help of “highly qualified and appropriate personnel,” she added.
All participating candidates except Edmundo González Urrutia appeared before the TSJ last week.
In addition, the Venezuelan authorities have denounced the alleged “cyber coup” before the United Nations. Caracas dignitary Joaquín Pérez Ayesterán assured the UN Convention against Cybercrime that “the Venezuelan electoral system is the victim of more than 30 million cyber attacks per minute,” after which “massive attacks on all Venezuelan government portals” were carried out.
“Such actions, which we condemn again today, are part of a clear destabilization operation aimed, on the one hand, at creating an information blackout and, on the other, at consolidating a coup,” said Pérez Ayesterán.
In a separate development, Venezuelan Transport Minister Ramón Velásquez Araguayán said on Sunday that the Anonymous group had carried out cyberattacks on the systems of national airline Conviasa and the Caracas subway network.
“We once again condemn the fact that we were the target of attacks by the hacktivist collective Anonymous on the web portal of our flagship airline Conviasa, which we managed to neutralize with our technical teams,” Velásquez Araguayán said on Instagram. He also mentioned that the maneuver caused a breakdown in rail traffic, which was, however, immediately restored.
