The text also repudiated “the attempts to legitimize this fraud, with complicity, by leaders and political sectors in our country,” and then expressed “solidarity with the Venezuelan people and with the democratic leaders and the legitimately elected president.” Edmundo Gonzalez”.
The call for a meeting and a day not without its clashes
The call for the session was requested yesterday through a document stating the urgent need to hold an extraordinary session, with the aim of “analyzing and making a statement on the situation generated in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.”
The signatories include senators Tabare Viera, Javier Garcia, Graciela Bianchi, Jorge Gandini, Luis Alberto Heber, Sergio Botana, Carlos Camy and the Vice President of the Republic and President of the Senate, Beatriz Argimón.
The nationalist senator, Luis Alberto Heberquestioned the opposition and its lack of position, or its ambiguity, regarding the situation in Venezuela. The former Minister of the Interior commented that the Frente Amplio “defends the dictatorship in Venezuela” simply because it is left-wing. “The opposition is seen in the country as the great defender of human rights. If they take that position, what we demand is coherence” commented the former Minister of the Interior.
“You cannot be saying here that you are against the dictatorship and in defense of human rights and then endorse dictatorships because you are left-wing. We as the National Party condemn both right-wing and left-wing dictatorships,” he added.
He also took the opportunity to shoot at the former president. Jose “Pepe” Mujica when he recalled his guerrilla past. “To say terrorism is also to condemn those leaders who in the past said that democracy was useless. Those who chose that path are also responsible for the fact that this country has experienced very violent times. Coincidentally, those who said that came to power through votes,” said the former minister.
The senator of the National Party (PN), promoter of the call, Javier Garciaassured that “the election was in Venezuelabut democracy is universal and respect, protection and defense of human rights and freedom is incumbent upon us all equally.” For which he criticized the Broad Front (FA) of “not recognizing the seriousness of what happened on Sunday” and of being “an accomplice to the dictatorship of the criminal Maduro.”
In the middle of García’s speech, which was marked by shouts and reproaches from the opposition, the senator Graciela Bianchi raised his voice to shout: “Shut your mouths, traitors, traitors.” Meanwhile, the president of the Senate, Beatriz Argimón He was in charge of calling for order in the room several times until García was able to finish his intervention by calling Maduro a “dictator” and “a criminal protected by organized crime and drug trafficking.”
The response of the Broad Front
In response to Garcia’s remarks, the senator Jose Carlos Mahia He asked to speak and fired directly at those who accused them. “No one is going to talk to the Frente Amplio about dignity. Neither here nor anywhere else. We do not accept anyone who comes to talk to the Frente Amplio about dignity. This political force put together men and women who gave their lives to defend democracy in Uruguay,” he said.
“The Frente Amplio did not have a single position of trust or State advisor during the dictatorship. We will not give up anything to it or to anyone. We had deaths and disappearances during the dictatorship,” he added, and concluded: “We reject such a crude attempt to gain political advantage from the internal affairs of the Zócalo.”
Uruguayan diplomatic personnel withdrawn from Venezuela
Yesterday the government of Venezuela decided to withdraw all diplomatic personnel from about seven countries in the region, including Uruguayafter considering that these nations did not recognize the results of last Sunday’s elections.
In this way, the Bolivarian government decided to withdraw its diplomatic delegations from Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, the Dominican Republic and Uruguay.
The Maduro government also demanded that these governments “immediately withdraw their representatives” from Venezuelan territory, amid a climate of escalating diplomatic tension with countries in the region.
Through the statement released by the social network X, the Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil he claimed: “Venezuela expresses its strongest rejection of the interventionist actions and statements of a group of right-wing governments, subordinate to Washington and openly committed to the most sordid ideological postulates of international fascism, trying to reissue the failed and defeated Lima Groupwho seek to ignore the electoral results of the Presidential Elections held this Sunday, July 28, 2024, which gave victory as President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to Nicolás Maduro, for a new Constitutional Period 2025-2031.”
The National Party sought a declaration of fraud
Along with the request for the session, the senator Javier Garcia He anticipated in the preview of the session that they were going to go for the declaration of fraud in Venezuela. “We are going to gather the necessary signatures to call for an extraordinary, serious and urgent session of the Senate to speak out on fraud in Venezuela“, he remarked at the time.
Doubts were raised about the attitude of the Broad Front (FA)reluctant to support legislative condemnations against Venezuela, who did not vote on the motion and presented his own initiative.
Several leaders of the National Party have pointed out this morning the silence of the presidential candidate Yamandú Orsi regarding the results of the elections in Venezuela, in which President Nicolás Maduro obtained 51.2% of the votes according to the electoral authority.
The Uruguayan government will not recognize the alleged victory of Nicolas Maduro in the presidential elections of Venezuelaannounced amid allegations of fraud, on the grounds that “the process was clearly flawed.”
“Not like that! It was an open secret. They were going to ‘win’ regardless of the actual results,” the president wrote. Luis Lacalle Pou on his X account in the early hours of the morning. “The process up to the day of the election and the counting of votes was clearly flawed. You cannot recognize a victory if you do not trust the way and the mechanisms used to achieve it,” he clarified.
Source: Ambito
