CNE

The National Electoral Council (CNE) is the body that governs the electoral Power, which is one of the 5 powers into which the Venezuelan Public Power is divided. The CNE is responsible and guarantor of the transparency of the electoral and endorsement processes that are carried out in the Nation. The CNE, December 2, 2007. According to the Organic Law of the Electoral Power (LOPE), the CNE is the governing body of this power, and it is permanent and its headquarters is the capital of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. It is within its competence to regulate, direct and supervise the activities of its subordinate organs, as well as to guarantee compliance with the constitutional principles attributed to the Electoral Power. Caracas Teleport Building, attached CNE headquarters According to the Venezuelan Constitution, it exercises its functions autonomously and with full independence from the other branches of the Public Power, with no other limitations than those established by law. It was born as the Supreme Electoral Council on September 11, 1946, through the Congress of the Republic of Venezuela, which passed the Electoral Census and Elections Law. At that time, the CSE was a Court of Appeals for decisions issued by the State Boards and oversaw the election process. It is the visible representation of the Electoral Power. Starting in 1946, elections were held by direct vote for all the Deliberative Bodies. In addition, this year's Constitution consecrated the direct vote for the election of the President of the Republic. For the first time, the right to vote was extended to women, illiterates and those over 18 years of age, thereby establishing universal voting. But in 1948 there was an interruption of the country's democratic institutionality due to a military coup, which would last around 10 years. On January 23, 1958, constitutionality was reestablished and the CSE once again assumed its functions of organizing and monitoring all electoral processes. On June 20 of that year, its members were named, and the CSE finally settled on June 25. Since 1997, with the entry into force of the Organic Law on Suffrage and Political Participation, it is no longer called the Supreme Electoral Council, to be called with the name that we currently know, only with the rank of Autonomous Institute (state body without legal personality own) and it was not constituted as a public power, until the approval by referendum of the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (CRBV), it is then when the new constitution grants it the rank of the highest body of the Electoral Power.

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