The presidential candidate of the Frente Amplio party spoke about the Venezuelan elections and assured that democracy is based “on transparency.”
The former mayor of Canelones and presidential candidate of the Frente Amplio (FA), Yamandú Orsicriticized the Venezuelan electoral process and its “suspicious” result, after this Sunday the National Electoral Councill (CNE) proclaimed to Nicolas Maduro as re-elected president, something that raised accusations of fraud by the opposition and all kinds of criticism internationally.
Orsi said that the Bolivarian government did not offer “sufficient guarantees” throughout the electoral process, in which several candidates were banned and irregularities were reported in various voting centers during the course of the civic day.
On the other hand, he also referred to the opposition, assuring that it was already predicting fraud “in advance” in case the election result went against it.
“When a government does not offer sufficient guarantees. When it is said in advance: “if I don’t win, it’s fraud.” When Brazil “decides not to send observers. The result could not be otherwise: suspect,” Orsi said on Monday through his X account (formerly Twitter).
Along the same lines, the former Canarian leader added: “Democracy is based on transparency. Also on trust.” Orsi’s message came after the official declaration of Executive Secretariat of the FAwho congratulated the Venezuelan people for a “peaceful democratic day” and called on people to wait for the official publication of the electoral records by the CNE.
The Venezuelan elections sparked divided opinions within the FA
While Orsi and the FA showed themselves this Monday with somewhat ambiguous messages, the National Liberation Movement-Tupamaros (MLN-T) congratulated the “Venezuelan people” on the same Sunday for choosing to “continue the path of peace alongside the Bolivarian project of sovereignty and social justice.”
For its part, the Senator Mario Bergara He spoke of “concern and sadness” over the situation in Venezuelaas well as “the lack of transparency” that “puts the announced election result under suspicion.”
“It is necessary to definitively understand that Venezuela “It is necessary to begin a genuine process of democratic re-institutionalisation in order to get out of the serious crisis in which it has been mired for so long,” said the Frente Amplio legislator.
Source: Ambito
