The Chancellor Diana Mondino reported a “remarkable fraud” of the Venezuelan government in last Sunday’s elections during his participation in the Permanent Council of the OAS which is taking place in the US. He said that Maduro “does not comply with the law” and He validated the minutes that the opposition is disseminating who declared Edmundo González the winner by an “overwhelming” margin.
“The Maduro regime does not comply with the law. This violates not only international regulations, but also the constitutional guarantees provided for in its own legislation,” said Mondino.
“The fraud has been remarkable. The minutes that are publishedlet’s not ask for more than that they be published. They have been on the internet for hours. They are published by the opposition and they are shown like this. We already have them. They are online and the opposition’s advantage in votes is overwhelming.“, Mondino said.
He then demanded that the OAS take concrete action to end the current situation in Venezuela.I would like the cry of this Council to be ‘enough for today and forever. In Venezuela and in all countries’“Because when the popular will is put in danger there can be no half measures,” he said.
The extraordinary meeting of the OAS to analyze the situation in Venezuela
The Permanent Council of the OAS called for an extraordinary meeting this Wednesday to “addressing the results of the electoral process” in Venezuela, where Nicolás Maduro declared himself the winner and the opposition denounces fraud.
The United States, Argentina, Chile, Canada, Ecuador, Guatemala, Panama, Peru, Paraguay, the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica and Uruguay are drafting a resolution to put pressure on Maduro. Foreign Minister Diana Mondino traveled to Washington to participate in the meeting.
Brazil, Mexico and Colombia support the need to make the results of the elections in Venezuela transparent, but they have their own agenda and measure their diplomatic offensive against Venezuela in relation to their regional interests.
Strong statement from the OAS
The OAS denounced that Sunday’s presidential elections in Venezuela, in which President Nicolás Maduro was declared the winner, suffered “the most aberrant manipulation,” in a statement from the office of its secretary general Luis Almagro.
“Throughout this electoral process, the Venezuelan regime has been applying its repressive scheme, complemented by actions aimed at completely distorting the electoral result, making that result available for the most aberrant manipulation,” the text states.
The pro-government Venezuelan National Electoral Council (CNE) ultimately gave Maduro the victory with 51.2% of the votes compared to 44.2% for the main opposition candidate, Edmundo González.
But the opposition, led by Maria Corina Machado, and much of the international community, including the United States, the European Union, Brazil and Colombia, cast doubt on the results that grant Maduro his third consecutive six-year term. Machado said she had copies of 73% of the voting records and projected a victory for Gonzalez with 6.27 million votes compared to Maduro’s 2.75 million.
Almagro’s office said that the fact that the opposition has presented the minutes and the government has not done so “It would be laughable and pathetic if it weren’t tragic.” “In this context, it is imperative to know about Maduro’s acceptance of the minutes held by the opposition,” as well as his acceptance of “his electoral defeat,” the statement said.
“Failure to do so would require new elections, but in this case with the electoral observation missions of the European Union and the OAS present and a new CNE to reduce the margin of institutional irregularity that plagued this process,” he said.
Source: Ambito
