The government of Luis Lacalle Pou The opposition candidate acknowledged this Friday Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia as the winner of the presidential elections in Venezuela and urged the regime to Nicolas Maduro to admit defeat and begin the transition to an opposition-led government.
“Uruguay “awaits with great expectation the recognition of the election results by the competent Venezuelan authorities and the beginning of the transition process towards the constitution of a new Government, in a framework of peace and respect for human rights,” said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs through a statement.
The Executive stressed that “five days after the election held last Sunday in Venezuelathe electoral authority has not yet presented evidence of the actual results, nor has it enabled independent audit mechanisms for the counting of votes.”
The official statement, which highlights that the Carter Center, respected even by the Chavista regime, described the election as undemocratic, considers that “the Venezuelan opposition has done a commendable job of collecting more than 80% of the voting records, without their veracity having been refuted. From this recount, it emerges with absolute force that the candidate Edmundo González Urrutia was the one who received the majority of votes.”
Uruguay’s request to the Venezuelan authorities to recognize their electoral defeat and initiate the mechanisms of a democratic government transition came minutes after the foreign minister Omar Paganinithrough a tweet, assured that “based on the overwhelming evidence, it is clear to Uruguay that Edmundo González Urrutia obtained the majority of votes in the presidential elections of Venezuela”“We hope that the will of the Venezuelan people will be respected. The truth is the path to peace,” he added.
The recognition of the victory of the Venezuelan opposition candidate, the successor of the anti-Chavez leader María Corina Machado, occurred almost simultaneously with that made by the government of Javier Milei in Argentina“We can all confirm, without a doubt, that the legitimate winner and President-elect is Edmundo González,” said the foreign minister. Diana Mondinoalso through the X network.
The decision demonstrates the high level of coordination and communication between the two governments regarding the political situation in Venezuela, where the pro-Chavez National Electoral Council (CNE) declared President Nicolas Maduro.
The CNE proclaimed Maduro re-elected as president for a third six-year term, with 51% of the votes against 44% for González Urrutia, his main rival. The opposition claims that it has copies of more than 80% of the minutes and that its candidate obtained 67% of the votes.
Foreign Minister Paganini has played an active role in the regional pressure against the Maduro regime to allow an international and independent review of the election results. During his speech at the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS), He harshly criticized the Pan-American organization for failing to reach a resolution condemning Venezuelan electoral fraud and the repression of opposition protests that followed, leaving at least 20 dead.
Earlier in the day, US Secretary of State, Antony Blinkenalso wrote on social media that “the electoral data overwhelmingly demonstrates the will of the Venezuelan people: the democratic opposition candidate obtained the most votes in Sunday’s elections. Venezuelans have voted and their votes must count.”
Source: Ambito
