The foreign minister regretted that President Nicolás Maduro is implementing “different stratagems” to “ignore the popular will.”
He Minister of Foreign Affairs (MRREE), Omar Paganinicalled for maintaining international pressure on Venezuela until the Bolivarian government “reconsiders” and offers a “way out towards democracy” after the presidential elections of July 28, which resulted in the victory of President Nicolas Maduroreported as fraudulent by Uruguay and several other countries in the region.
This Sunday, within the framework of the celebrations for the 199th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence that took place in Piedra Alta, department of Floridathe chancellor regretted in a press conference that the chavismo implement “different stratagems” to “ignore the popular will” and the victory of the opposition Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia.
“We saw an opportunity to move towards democracy in Venezuela With this election on July 28, we see how step by step and with different strategies, the government is ignoring the popular will and closing all doors,” he stressed.
In this sense, the head of the MRREE hopes that the Venezuelan government will “reconsider” and open “paths to democracy”, after what was the ratification of Maduro in office by the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) Venezuelan, which is identified as an organ related to Chavez.
“We want to maintain international pressure, there is a large group of countries in America who have stated that what the TSJ proclaimed is not credible Venezuelalike the European Union“, Paganini insisted.
“It depends on the Venezuelans”
However, Paganini hinted that although Uruguay will keep up the pressure on Maduro’s government, the fate of the Caribbean country “depends on the Venezuelans.” “We have seen how they have mobilized peacefully,” he added.
“The regime, on the other hand, represses and persecutes them, and this has us very worried. It depends a lot on what can happen in Venezuelawhere a civic attitude of popular participation and protest is seen,” he concluded.
Source: Ambito
