The president had not planned to participate in the forum in New York, but the TSJ ruling forced him to change his plans.
The President Luis Lacalle Pou will travel to the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) in New York, with the aim of joining the mandates that will denounce fraud in the elections of Venezuela, after that Uruguay was unaware of the failure of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) which gave as winner to Nicolas Maduro.
Although attending the summit in New York was not on his agenda, he finally Lacalle Pou The president will travel to the General Assembly, whose session will be from September 10 to 24, as decided in the last few hours and reported by Subrayado. For the president, it would be opportune to attend the forum since there will be leaders and representatives of 180 countries, many of which are expected to condemn what they denounce as fraud in Venezuela, following Maduro’s re-election for a third consecutive term.
The decision of the head of state was made in parallel with the fact that Uruguay issued a joint statement with ten other countries on Friday —Argentina, Costa Rica, Chile, Ecuador, United States, Guatemala, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Dominican Republic- in which he reiterates the request for a partial and independent audit of the votes; and rejects the announcement by the TSJ that “intends to validate the unsupported results issued by the electoral body.”
Lacalle Pou’s reaction to the TSJ ruling
The truth is that Lacalle Pou had already reacted to the ruling of the TSJ – which, together with the National Electoral Council (CNE)is constituted as an institution related to the Maduro government and has a recognized Chavista integration, which calls into question its partiality—: for the president, the ruling is the way in which “the regime of Nicolas Maduro confirms the fraud.”
“The Maduro regime confirms what the international community has been denouncing: fraud,” he said. Lacalle Pou through his X account, in line with Uruguay’s position, which condemned the irregularities that occurred since the July 28 elections in different areas.
For the president, in Venezuela There is “a dictatorship that closes all doors to an institutional and democratic life for its people,” which is why he called on leaders around the world to take action. “We must not remain silent or cease in defense of the Venezuelan cause”, he exclaimed, after the TSJ certified “in an unobjectionable manner the examined electoral material.”
Source: Ambito
