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Weekly Report - 12 November 2015 (WR-15-45)
VENEZUELA: Almagro savages electoral system
It could be argued that Luis Almagro, the secretary general of the Organization of American States (OAS), has largely been flying under the radar since he assumed his position earlier this year. Not so now. Almagro this week delivered the most stinging indictment of Venezuela’s electoral system of any active official in the hemisphere in advance of the country’s legislative elections on 6 December. In a public letter running to 18 pages, addressed to the head of the national electoral council (CNE), Tibisay Lucena, but clearly meant for a much wider audience, Almagro subjected the state of Venezuela’s current electoral process and wider democracy to a rigorous examination, exposing numerous shortcomings. The OAS has not been invited by Venezuela to perform its customary role of international observation but this letter could have a far greater impact than any report a visiting team might have produced.
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