- The Peruvian government said it took the measure due to “arbitrary decisions” made by Nicolás Maduro | Main photo: courtesy
On Monday, July 29, the Peruvian government expelled Venezuelan diplomats accredited in the country and gave them a maximum of 72 hours to leave Peruvian territory.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement that this measure was ordered by the Peruvian foreign minister, Javier González-Olaechea, “due to the serious and arbitrary decisions taken today by the Venezuelan regime.”
He added that González-Olaechea “has instructed that Venezuelan diplomatic officials accredited in Peru be informed that they must leave the country within a period of no more than 72 hours.”
The decision was announced hours after the government of Nicolás Maduro demanded that Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Peru, Panama, the Dominican Republic and Uruguay immediately withdraw their representatives from Venezuelan territory, in rejection of their “interventionist actions and statements” regarding the presidential elections on Sunday, July 28.
Maduro withdrew diplomatic personnel from seven countries
The Executive of Nicolás Maduro also indicated in a statement that it decided to withdraw all diplomatic personnel from the missions in these seven Latin American countries.
This was in response to what he considered “the interventionist actions and statements of a group of right-wing governments, subordinate to Washington and openly committed to the most sordid ideological postulates of international fascism, (…) who seek to ignore the election results.”
On Monday, July 29, the governments of Uruguay, Argentina, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and the Dominican Republic expressed their deep concern about the conduct of the elections in Venezuela, demanding a complete review of the results and calling for an urgent meeting of the Organization of American States (OAS).
The National Electoral Council (CNE) officially proclaimed Maduro the winner on Monday, after announcing on Sunday night that he had obtained 51.2% of the votes, the same result he received when 80% of the ballots had been counted and there were still more than two million votes left to count.
For his part, the candidate of the majority opposition, Edmundo González Urrutia, obtained 44.2% of the votes, according to the first and only public report of the CNE, which did not specify which candidates received the 2,394,268 votes that were not reported.
Venezuelan opposition announced that it has 73.20% of the votes
María Corina Machado confirmed on Monday, July 29, that the opposition has 73.20% of the votes with the results of the presidential elections, which give Edmundo González the victory.
“The regime slept very worried but we did not sleep because we were busy. If they deliver the real records, they will have to confirm the truth, and the truth is what we saw on the streets of Venezuela,” he said.
Machado said that all the minutes they received were reviewed, scanned and digitized to be uploaded to a robust web portal.
“Tomorrow we will meet as a family because this fight we have waged is for a Venezuela in which we feel proud, a Venezuela where the president is Edmundo González Urrutia,” said Maria Corina Machado.
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2024-07-30 15:02:35
