Venezuela: Carter Center mission for regional elections

The Carter Center will send a small team of experts to Venezuela to

the regional elections in November, after the signing of an agreement with the Venezuelan authorities, the American NGO announced Wednesday (October 27th). The organization

of regional, scheduled for November 21, she said on its website. Four electoral experts and two representatives will visit the Venezuelan capital

. A few days after the poll, the Carter Center will publish a preliminary report and, two months later, another

, according to the statement.

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The last electoral mission to Venezuela of this NGO, founded by former US President Jimmy Carter, dates back to the 2013 presidential election when the current President Nicolás Maduro, who succeeded Hugo Chavez, who died, and whose he was the dolphin.

It observed six elections in Venezuela between 1998 and 2013. On November 21, the country is due to elect both new governors and new municipal councils.

The European Union announced at the end of September that it had reached an agreement with Caracas to observe these elections in which the opposition should participate, after the boycott of the 2018 presidential election and the 2020 legislative elections. Venezuela had often been reluctant to welcome electoral observers on its soil, and the EU had unsuccessfully requested the presence of a mission for the legislative elections of December 2020. This election had been boycotted by the opposition and the authorities had won an overwhelming victory.