“I agree and support Lula’s statements: under no circumstances can we threaten with bloodbaths“What the leaders and candidates receive are a flood of votes and these floods of votes represent popular sovereignty, which must be respected,” Boric said at a conference for international journalists.
He later noted: “On the eve of this very important election,I call on the Government and the Venezuelan electoral power to guarantee the normal development of the electoral process with guaranteesespecially for the opposition, granting unrestricted respect to the results that are duly accredited.”
In his closing campaign, the current Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro asked for a “vote of confidence” to obtain reelection and considered it to be “the guarantee of peace and stability”: “To those who once opposed us, I appeal to their benevolent reason, their common sense and their patriotism.” He also assured that “We are not here to persecute anyone, we are not here to fire anyone from their job” and he addressed his followers: “To those who have always followed us, I thank you for the victorious strength of all the years.”
Nicolas Maduro’s son on Venezuela’s elections: “If we lose, we surrender and become the opposition”
Nicolas Maduro Guerra, son of the president of Venezuela, said on Wednesday that if his father is not re-elected to continue for another six years in the Miraflores Palace, they will accept the results and prepare to be the opposition: “If Edmundo González wins, we will surrender and we will be the opposition, that’s it.”
Maduro war He highlighted the similarity of the current campaign with that of 2012, when Hugo Chavez was re-elected and expressed his optimism regarding the presidential elections next Sunday: “We are going to have a great victory”he said, indicating that there are surveys that give them an advantage of between 8% and 10%.
He also noted that, according to his analysis,the campaign of the main rival, the diplomat González, “has stagnated”, while Chavismo is having a good moment.”
In an interview with the newspaper The country From Spain, Maduro Guerra emphasized the need to accept the popular will.History has shown that the day we don’t win, we concede. Always, every election, every single one.“He stressed, recalling past events such as the constitutional reform of 2007 and the legislative elections of 2015, where Chavismo accepted adverse results.
Lula asked Nicolás Maduro to respect the result if he loses the elections in Venezuela
The Brazilian president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silvaurged the government of Venezuela to respect the outcome of the weekend’s election, saying he was “scared” by the threat from the current president, Nicolas Maduro, of a bloodbath if he loses.
“I have told Maduro that the only possibility for Venezuela to return to normality is if there is a widely respected electoral process”Lula told international news agencies.
“I was scared by the Maduro’s comments that Venezuela could face a bloodbath if it loses”“Maduro needs to learn that when you win, you stay; when you lose, you leave,” Lula said.
“I hope this happens for the good of Venezuela, for the good of South America,” he added.
Source: Ambito
