Original: Spanish
The Socialist International Committee for Latin America and the Caribbean, meeting in Kingston, Jamaica on 1-2 September 2000, received with concern the report presented by its member party from Venezuela, Democratic Action, on irregularities and challenges to the electoral process on 30 June this year, in particular what happened in the states of Mérida, Cojedes, Nueva Esparta, Barinas, Táchira, Falcón, Anzoátegui, Lara y Sucre.
The Committee, consistent with its fundamental commitment to democracy and the holding of transparent, free and fair elections, as the fundamental condition of popular sovereignty and of governance, calls on the National Electoral Council of Venezuela to check exhaustively and speedily these challenged results and to pronounce on them.