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Consejo Nacional Electoral CNE | |
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Formed | 1999 |
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Jurisdiction | Government of Venezuela |
Headquarters | Plaza Caracas Caracas, Venezuela |
Motto | Electoral Power (Poder Electoral) |
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The National Electoral Council (Spanish: Consejo Nacional Electoral, CNE) is one of the five branches of government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela that was designed to be loyal to revolution. It is the institution that has the responsibility of overseeing and guaranteeing the transparency of all elections and referendums in Venezuela at the local, regional, and national levels. The creation of the CNE was ratified in Venezuela's 1999 constitutional referendum. Following the election of Nicolás Maduro into the presidency, the CNE has been described, by the president's opponents, as being pro-Maduro.[1][2][3][4]