The president insisted that “what needs to be done is to count the votes” and spoke of “electoral fraud” by Nicolás Maduro.
The President Luis Lacalle Pou condemned the proposal to repeat the elections in Venezuela, driven by political leaders in countries such as Brazil and Colombia and he ironically said: “Until when do we do this, until the person they want to win wins?”
Lacalle Pou defended his attendance at the UN General Assembly, which will take place in less than a month, saying: “I thought that I should be present at this last meeting of mine as President of the Republic, and especially with the topic of Venezuela being so hot.”
“It is an opportunity where there are 150 or 160 heads of state to exert significant pressure on what, by all accounts, has been electoral fraud,” he said about the vote in that country, ratified by the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ), politically aligned with Nicolas Maduro.
When approached at a press conference during an exhibition of local cutlery in Montevideo, The president considered that “the proposals for coalitions between the two forces are neither fair nor logical.”
He was more vocal about repeating the elections. “Until when do we hold them, until the one they want to win wins or with the candidates they want to win?” he asked and concluded: “What we have to do is count the votes. It will not be possible. Uruguay whoever twists the destiny of a dictatorship, But I do believe that the international community can do it.”
The opposition candidate was summoned by the Venezuelan Justice
In line with a large number of countries, Uruguay He ignored the ruling of the TJS on the validity of the elections, while it joined a document that spoke of “deep concern and rejection of the human rights violations perpetrated against citizens who peacefully demand respect for the vote of citizens and the restoration of the democracy”.
Along these lines, this Saturday the Venezuelan Public Ministry issued a summons to the former opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia to appear next Monday to testify on his alleged responsibility for crimes related to the publication of election results.
Specifically, he is accused of usurpation of functions, forging a public document, instigation to disobedience of the law, computer crimes, criminal association and conspiracy, according to the document published on the Prosecutor’s account on the social network Instagram.
Source: Ambito
