The foreign minister said that the information provided by the anti-Chavez movement is “overwhelming,” but that this does not mean that Edmundo González Urrutia is recognized as the president-elect.
The chancellor Omar Paganini He explained the government’s position in the face of the political crisis it is experiencing Venezuela, and pointed out that Uruguay does not yet recognize the opposition candidate Edmund Gonzalez Urrutia not as the elected president of the Bolivarian country, but as the legitimate winner of the elections of July 28.
The government headed by Luis Lacalle Pou recognized this Friday González Urrutia as the winner of the Venezuelan elections and urged the regime Nicolas Maduro to admit defeat and begin the transition to an opposition-led government.
In this regard, Foreign Minister Paganini explained in an interview with the program Fácil Desviarse that this decision was based on two main reasons: that the chavismo did not show the detailed minutes that ratified the results published on Sunday that declared the winner Ripe for a third presidential term; while the sector led by Maria Corina Machado If he did.
“On the one hand, the official part leaves a lot to be desired. But on the other hand, there is an operation – which I would say is typical of the 21st century and quite admirable – in which the opposition digitalized the minutes, they are available on the web, anyone can look at them, no one has claimed that they are false, they allow their authenticity to be verified with QR codes, signatures of table presidents… Everything is there,” said the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs who, days ago, was very harsh in his speech before the Organization of American States (OAS).
For Paganini, the information published on a website by the opposition was “overwhelming” and led to the conclusion that González won Sunday’s election. However, “assuming the elected presidency and so on is a formal process that has not yet taken place,” he clarified.
The National Party could comment on the matter
On the other hand, since the National Party Directory They are considering the possibility of speaking out, as the government did, on Sunday’s elections in Venezuela and the results that would give the opposition candidate González Urrutia the victory. Meanwhile, different white leaders expressed themselves on the matter.
One of them was the nationalist candidate for the Presidency, Alvaro Delgado, He said that “there is no doubt that the will of the Venezuelan people is for Edmundo González Urrutia to be their president.” “Their votes must be respected,” he insisted on social media, adding that he feels proud of the fact that Uruguay “be on the right side of history, which is always on the side of the democracy”.
Also the former Minister of Defense and current senator Javier Garcia He used his networks to refer to the opposition candidate as “the president of Venezuela”: “He won the election, that is the only reality.”
He also described Ripe as a “dictator” which “began with what it promised: a bloodbath.”
Source: Ambito
