Days after the order of Joe Biden to Nicolas Maduro to show the official minutes After allegedly declaring him the winner with 51% of the votes, Washington sided with the Venezuelan opposition by recognizing González Urrutia as the winner of the election.
“Given the overwhelming evidence, It is clear to the United States and, more importantly, to the Venezuelan people that Edmundo González Urrutia obtained the most votes in the July 28 presidential elections in Venezuela,” Blinken said tonight.
The statement signed by the senior government official Biden ensures that “The United States rejects Maduro’s unfounded accusations against opposition leaders” and calls Maduro’s threats to arrest opposition leaders “a anti-democratic attempt to repress political participation and retain power.”
“Now is the time for the Venezuelan parties to begin discussions on a peaceful transition and respectful of Venezuelan electoral law and the wishes of the Venezuelan people,” he continued. Blinken.
Nicolás Maduro offered to deliver “100% of the minutes” of the elections in Venezuela
This Wednesday, Ripe 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.”
“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.
Venezuela: the opposition claims it won with 67% of the votes
The Venezuelan opposition, hand in hand with Maria Corina Machadoreleased on Tuesday alleged electoral records, recounted from the digitalization of witness records by state, municipality, parish, center and table, which reveal that the candidate González Urrutia won with 67% over Maduro, who was left behind with only 30% of the votes. At the moment, the new count has 80% of the records digitized.
“Edmundo won, Venezuela won,” Machado celebrated on Tuesday on their social networks, and shared the link to access the electoral data published on the party’s page. Both the opposition leadership and its followers ignored the CNE count and had announced that they had “How to prove the truth of the ballot boxes.” “The difference was overwhelming in all states,” Machado had remarked at a press conference on Monday.
The opposition’s stance provoked a strong reaction from President Maduro and Venezuelan government officials, who threatened to imprison Machado and González Urrutia. The opposition leader declared on Wednesday that she is in “hiddenness” because she fears “for her life and for her freedom”.
In this context, the opposition leader published an article in The Wall Street Journal where she said: “I write this from hiding, fearing for my life, for my freedom.” She also demanded the “Immediate” cessation of repression of protests against Maduro’s re-electionwhich he denounced as fraudulent.
“The State Security Forces They have killed at least 20 Venezuelansimprisoned for more than 1,000 and caused eleven forced disappearances “at the protests. Most of our team is in hiding,” she added in the text. “I could be captured as I write these words.”
Source: Ambito
