22 countries and EU call for impartial verification of Venezuelan election results

The text was read by the Dominican Minister of Foreign Affairs, Roberto Álvarez / Photo: EFE

Twenty-two countries, including Spain, and the European Union, requested on Friday the “immediate publication of all the original minutes” of the July 28 elections in Venezuela and the “impartial” and “independent” verification of the results of those elections, in which the National Electoral Council declared Nicolás Maduro the winner, according to a statement signed in Santo Domingo.

“Any delay” in this verification, “preferably by an international entity to guarantee respect for the will of the Venezuelan people as expressed at the polls,” calls into question the officially published results, says the text, read by the Dominican Minister of Foreign Affairs, Roberto Álvarez, at the Presidential Palace in Santo Domingo together with the signatories of the declaration.

The declaration was signed by Argentina, Canada, Chile, the Czech Republic, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Spain, the United States, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Italy, Morocco, the Netherlands, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, the United Kingdom, Suriname, Portugal, the Dominican Republic, Uruguay and the European Union.

Santo Domingo / EFE