A/HRC/45/CRP.11 in the first four months of the year.165 The National Electoral Council later convened the presidential elections for 20 May 2018, following several date changes, in order to coincide with the date of elections of local representatives.166 96. On 15 January 2018, Óscar Pérez (see para. 87 above) announced through his Instagram account that he was being attacked in the Junquito west neighbourhood of Caracas. Mr. Pérez tweeted messages and a video stating that he had surrendered, but that the security forces were continuing the armed attack.167 According to the report given by the Government, after the confrontation between Mr. Pérez and the mixed-forced security brigade sent to arrest him, the house where Mr. Pérez was sheltering was blown up with an RPG-7 missile. At least nine people died.168 President Maduro made a statement the same day congratulating the armed forces that stopped the “terrorist threat”.169 97. On 25 January 2018, the Supreme Court issued a decision holding that the MUD opposition coalition could not participate as a group in the forthcoming elections. 170 Opposition leaders Henrique Capriles (Primero Justicia party) and Leopoldo López (Voluntad Popular party) remained subject to previous measures prohibiting their participation. Prior to this, in December 2017, the National Constituent Assembly had disallowed political parties that had not participated in the previous election cycle from running in the election.171 Numerous States spoke out against the elections, alleging that measures were not in place to ensure that they would be free, transparent and democratic. 172 98. On 20 May 2018, President Maduro was elected for a second six-year term. According to official election results, Mr. Maduro achieved 67.84 per cent of the vote against Henri Falcon’s 20.93 per cent.173 Following the opposition’s call for a boycott,174 turnout was significantly less than in 2013, with official figures showing that 46.02 per cent of eligible 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 See YouTube Video, Luigino Bracci Roa, Asamblea Nacional Constituyente, sesión completa 23 enero 2018, llamado a elecciones, 23 January 2018, minute 22:00, available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIu9IDK7Ho8&t=4706s. See Press Release of the National Electoral Council, dated 1 March 2018, available at: http://www4.cne.gob.ve/web/sala_prensa/noticia_detallada.php?id=3648. See YouTube Video: Mr. Rumpelstiltskin, Óscar Pérez Enfrentamiento Video Completo, available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXFcUtW1r34. See YouTube Video: Globovisión, Videos. Ministro Reverol confirma la muerte de Óscar Pérez y seis integrantes de grupo armado, available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY4wpOV1zKk. See YouTube Video: Luigino Bracci Roa, Situación en Venezuela, Todo lo que dijo Maduro sobre Óscar Pérez y su fripo desarticulado este lunes, available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlI2E4UHcr0. Judgment No. 53 of 25 January 2018, available at: https://www.accesoalajusticia.org/wpcontent/uploads/2018/01/SC-N%C2%BA-53-25-01-2018.pdf; See also Press Release from Office of the Vice-President (no date), available at: http://vicepresidencia.gob.ve/tsj-ratifica-prohibicion-dedoble-militancia-en-partidos-politicos/. National Constituent Assembly, Constitutional Decree for the Participation on Electoral Processes, published in the Official Gazette No. 41.308, 27 December 2017, available at: https://www.sumate.org/documentos/41308_DECRETO_DE_LA_ANC.pdf (“Las organizaciones con fines políticos para participar en los procesos electorales nacionales, regionales o municipales deberán haber participado en las elecciones del período constitucional de ámbito nacional, regional o municipal inmediatamente anterior”). See Statement of the Lima Group (Argentina, Brasil, Canadá, Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, México, Panamá, Paraguay, Perú y Santa Lucía, with the participation of Spain), “Los países participantes reiteraron la condena al régimen autoritario que prevalece en Venezuela, el cual ha violentado la institucionalidad democrática, el estado de derecho y el respeto a los derechos humanos y ha convocado a un proceso electoral ilegítimo y carente de credibilidad”, 14 April 2018, available at: https://www.gob.mx/sre/prensa/comunicado-del-grupo-de-lima-157051; Statement of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, 27 February 2018, available at: https://www.foreign.senate.gov/press/ranking/release/senate-resolution-condemns-venezuelanGovernments-proposed-sham-election-calls-for-delay-until-minimal-electoral-standards-met. See National Electoral Council, results of 2018 presidential elections, available at: http://www.cne.gob.ve/ResultadosElecciones2018/. See YouTube Video, afpes, Oposición venezolana apuesta por boicot a elección presidencial, 21 February 2018, available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5YCl_yivxY. 23