The president is thus responding to a request from the international community, while the opposition is denouncing a “cruel and repressive escalation.”
The president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, offered to deliver “100% of the minutes” of the elections in that country, after different sectors denounced an “electoral fraud” and while leaders of the opposition They denounce a “cruel and repressive escalation” against them.
Given the suspicions of the result that led to his re-election, in an election questioned by the Uruguayan government, Maduro filed an appeal for protection this Wednesday before the Electoral Chamber of the Supreme justice court to certify the results of the vote “by carrying out an expert appraisal of the highest technical level.”
According to the result published by the National Electoral Council (CNE), a pro-government party, Maduro was reelected with 51% of the votes against Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia.
“I have said, as a political leader, son of the commander (Hugo Chavez, that (the alliance) the Great Patriotic Pole and the United Socialist Party of Venezuela “They are ready to present 100% of the records. They will find out very soon, because God is with us and the evidence has already appeared,” said the president of the Caribbean country in a press conference.
And he insisted: “I am willing to be summoned, questioned, in all its parts, investigated by the electoral chamber as the presidential candidate who won the elections on Sunday. As head of state, I show my face, I submit to the justice”.
Complaints from the opposition in Venezuela
For their part, opposition leaders Maria Corina Machado and its presidential candidate, Gonzalez Urrutia, They denounced fraud, claimed they had won the election and demanded an end to the repression that has left at least 12 dead, dozens injured and more than a thousand arrested since Monday.
Machado, who is allegedly the subject of an arrest warrant, said on the social network X that there is a “cruel and violent escalation” repressive of the regime,” while specifying that a total of 16 people have died in protests against the government in the last 48 hours.
In terms of elections, Machado claims to have in his possession copies of 84% of the voting records that demonstrate the alleged fraud and posted them on a website.
Source: Ambito
