The United Nations Secretariat responded positively to the request of the National Electoral Council of Venezuela for the deployment of a Panel of Electoral Experts for the presidential elections of July 2024, reported the spokesman for the United Nations. General secretary this Tuesday.
The spokesperson noted that a team of four experts will travel to the country in early July to provide the UN chief with a “independent and internal” report on the general development of the elections.
The document will be “confidential” and will include “recommendations on improvements that could be made in future electoral processes in Venezuela.”
The panel will not issue any public statement
According to the spokesperson, a Panel of Electoral Experts is one of several types of electoral assistance that the United Nations can provide at the request of Member States.
Unlike UN electoral observation missions, which require a specific mandate from the Security Council wave general Assemblyand they are very rare, Electoral Expert Panels they do not issue public statements evaluating the general conduct of an electoral process or its results.
Without a legislative mandate, the UN cannot publicly observe or evaluate a Member State’s electoral processes and therefore the Panel of Experts will not issue any public statements, the spokesperson said.
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