The country issued a joint statement with ten other countries reiterating its request for a partial and independent audit of the votes.
The government of Luis Lacalle Pouthrough the Chancelleryissued a joint statement with seven other countries reiterating the request for a partial and independent audit of the votes in Venezuela and is unaware of the failure of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ)) which gave the president the victory for a third term Nicolas Maduro.
Uruguay and the governments of Argentina, Costa Rica, Chili, Ecuador, USA, Guatemala, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Dominican Republic, categorically rejected the announcement by the TSJ, which on Thursday indicated that it had concluded an alleged verification of the results of the electoral process of July 28, issued by the National Electoral Council (CNE)which “attempts to validate the unsupported results issued by the electoral body.”
“The undersigned countries reiterate that only an impartial and independent audit of the votes, which evaluates all the minutes, will guarantee respect for the sovereign popular will and the democracy in Venezuela“, said the joint statement published by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
On Thursday night, President Lacalle Pou had already reacted to the ruling by assuring that “the regime Nicolas Maduro “It confirms what the international community has been denouncing: fraud.” He added that there is “a dictatorship that closes all doors to an institutional and democratic life for its people,” and he called on leaders around the world to take action. “We must not remain silent or cease in defense of the Venezuelan cause,” he urged.
The group of countries, which tried to promote in the Organization of American States (OAS) a measure against the Maduro dictatorship and the electoral fraud it promoted, recalls that they had already expressed their disregard for the results presented by the CNE, because it prevented opposition representatives from accessing the official count, has not yet published the minutes and refused to carry out an impartial and independent audit of all of them.
Likewise, Uruguay and the ten remaining countries reiterate their “deep concern and rejection of the human rights violations perpetrated against citizens who peacefully demand respect for the citizen’s vote and the restoration of democracy.”
Source: Ambito
