# The Carter Center finds the 2024 presidential election did not meet international standards and cannot be considered democratic

Date: 2024

## The fact

On 30 July 2024 the Carter Center, the independent observation organisation accredited for the 28 July vote, stated that Venezuela’s presidential election “did not meet international standards of electoral integrity and cannot be considered democratic,” and that it could not verify or corroborate CNE’s announced results because precinct results were not published. It is not the CNE announcement and not the opposition acta compilation. He did not write the Carter statement. Store complex.

## Context

CNE 28–29 July sat as parent. Neighbouring repression is a sibling street file. He did not sit as the Carter Center.

CNE 28 July is the parent announcement. Opposition actas are a neighbour status. Repression 29 July is a sibling.

The President of Venezuela heads the national executive, commands FANB as commander-in-chief, appoints the cabinet, and can request enabling laws. He does not write an OFAC designation, an ICC Pre-Trial Chamber decision, or a Colombian migration statute. A CNE announcement is not an opposition acta and is not a Carter Center finding. Those three statuses stay on separate rows. An ICC investigation is not a conviction. An IMF figure is labelled as an estimate where BCV stopped publishing. Sanctions after 2017 and 2019 are an external causal factor; they do not erase the pre-2017 PDVSA-and-policy collapse.

## Evidence and sources

The Carter Center carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [democratic resilience](/drivers/democratic-resilience): a completed independent finding that the process cannot be considered democratic, stored separately from CNE’s percentage and from opposition actas.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 30 July 2024 Carter Center finding at the named URL, independently reported by Reuters. He did not author the statement.

Not established: that Carter uniquely counted every acta, or a unique later body-count from that Tuesday, or that this finding is the same instrument as the CNE announcement.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

CNE had announced without precinct results. He owned the executive that invited and then faced the mission. Opposition organisations published actas as a neighbour.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies The Carter Center finds the 2024 presidential election did not meet international standards and cannot be considered democratic, not a later speech about The Carter Center finds the 2024 presidential election did not meet international standards and cannot be considered democratic.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. The Carter Center finds the 2024 presidential election did not meet international standards and cannot be considered democratic on 2024-07-30 is not a licence to treat every later The Carter Center communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average The Carter Center finds the 2024 presidential election did not meet international standards and cannot be considered democratic into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to The Carter Center wrote the finding. CNE had announced without precinct results. He owned the executive that invited and then faced the mission. Opposition organisations published actas as a neighbour. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Nicolás Maduro: https://factrail.ai/people/nicolas-maduro

## Drivers

- Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience
- Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/carter-center-says-venezuelan-election-cannot-be-considered-democratic-2024-07-31/
- https://www.cartercenter.org/news/venezuela-073024/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ve-carter-2024