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Weekly Report - 23 April 2015 (WR-15-16)
VENEZUELA: Gerrymandering infuriates the opposition
The national assembly (AN) approved new population data on 22 April prepared by the national statistics institute (INE) for this year’s pending legislative elections, which the national electoral council (CNE) will now use to draw up the 2015 electoral districts. Jesús Torrealba, the executive secretary of the opposition coalition Mesa de la Unidad Democrática (MUD), last week demanded an audit of the INE’s population statistics, suggesting that they were being “openly falsified” to allow the CNE to gerrymander electoral districts to favour the ruling Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (PSUV). Torrealba said that technicians from the INE, which prepares the population data for the CNE (and where Torrealba once worked), had raised the alarm with him about data manipulation.
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