Rigged Elections will Maintain Dictatorship and Impunity in Bolivia

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Along with the supplantation of the Republic’s Constitution by the “Plurinational State” in Bolivia, universal suffrage practices have been eliminated, the number of Senators has been increased to 36, the equality of all citizens has been eliminated, seven (7) new “special, indigenous, or native peasantry” districts have been imposed with a fascist corporate system, the “community vote” has been instituted. A new electoral system has been imposed, one in which someone with nearly 26% of the votes can garnish 50% of the Senate members, and with 30% of the votes “wins” the majority of the entire Legislative Assembly. Anyone can be President in the first round “with 40% of valid votes, with a difference of at least 10% from the second runner-up”.

Detailed findings of the independent international factfinding mission on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela*

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In its resolution 42/25 of 27 September 2019, the Human Rights Council established an independent fact-finding mission on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (hereinafter “Venezuela”) “to investigate extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, arbitrary detentions and torture and other cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment since 2014 with a view to ensuring full accountability for perpetrators and justice for victims”