He President of Brazil, Lula da Silvadeclared this Thursday that Nicolas Maduro that calling for new elections, with the presence of international observers, could be a possible solution to the deep political crisis facing the country. In addition, the Brazilian leader assured that there is still does not recognize Maduro as the winner of the elections.
Venezuela faces weeks of strong political and social crisis after what happened in the presidential elections of July 28. After the vote, Venezuelan National Electoral Council (CNE) proclaimed the official candidate as the winner despite the Opposition fraud allegations and of the international community.
Lula’s proposal for Nicolás Maduro
Two weeks before the presidential elections, the climate in Venezuela remains one of maximum tension. Both Both the ruling party and the opposition declared themselves winners and the international community disbelieves the discourse of the officialism led by Nicolás Maduro.
In this context, Lula Da Silva He believed that the call for some new presidential electionswith a different context that allows audit the conduct of the electionscould be a way out of the current crisis. “Maduro still has six months in office. If he has common sense he could try to appeal to the people of Venezuela, perhaps even call for new elections, establish criteria for the participation of all candidates, create a supra-party electoral committee so that everyone can participate and let everyone participate observers from around the world“, explained the president of Brazil.
Another solution proposed by the Brazilian leader was the formation of a “coalition government” made up of the opposition. Regarding the question of who won the elections, Lula said: “I cannot say that the opposition won because I do not have the data, and much less can I say that Maduro won because I do not have the data.”
Together with the governments of Colombia and MexicoBrazil is trying to open dialogue between the opposition candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, and Maduro, who was declared the winner by the National Electoral Council (CNE).
The UN’s questioning of Nicolás Maduro
In the midst of this conflict scenario, the UN Secretary General once again issued a statement on the situation in Venezuela. In this regard, the international organization stressed that the “absence of detailed results It is unprecedented” in the history of Venezuelan elections.
The report made by a panel of electoral specialists It was in private principle for the secretary general of the international organization, Antonio Guterres. However, the organization released a preliminary version on Tuesday night in which it maintains that The National Electoral Council (CNE) “failed to comply with the basic measures of transparency and integrity that are essential” for “credible elections.”
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“It also failed to follow national legal and regulatory provisions, and All established deadlines were not met“, the report says. These arguments and conclusions are in line with the calls of various international leaders and the European Union who demand greater transparency in the electoral process.
The response of the Venezuelan authorities was not long in coming, and the CNE rejected the UN experts’ report: “The text is riddled with lies“, the electoral body stated.
In addition, the rabbit detailed that the report expresses a clear “perverse political intentionality“It is a pamphlet document intended to delegitimize the impeccable and transparent electoral process that was carried out,” they said.
Source: Ambito
