The Peruvian Presidency has described Venezuela’s decision to break diplomatic relations with the Andean country as arbitrary, considering that they “disregard the will” of the Venezuelan people as expressed in last Sunday’s elections.
“This decision only formalizes the previous arbitrary decision to request the departure of Peruvian diplomatic and consular officials, and those of several other countries in the region. Peru deeply regrets the suffering of the brotherly Venezuelan people and hopes for the prompt triumph of democracy and freedom in Venezuela,” the Peruvian Presidency posted on the social network X.
Hours before the Venezuelan government announced the break in relations, Peruvian Foreign Minister Javier González-Olaechea said that Peru would recognize opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia as Venezuela’s president-elect after Sunday’s elections, where the National Electoral Council (CNE) gave victory to current President Nicolás Maduro.
According to the Peruvian Foreign Minister, “this position is shared by numerous countries, governments and international organizations.”
Consultation
Asked how they view Maduro, he said that “after the fraud committed” in Sunday’s elections, Peru considers him “as a person who wants to perpetuate himself in power through a dictatorship.”
Regarding the elections, the Peruvian Presidency stated that, “given the impossibility of conclusively demonstrating its alleged electoral victory, exhibiting all the minutes with international verification as requested by countries and multiple international organizations, Mr. Maduro’s regime” has announced the breaking of diplomatic relations with Peru.
In response, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil announced that “the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has decided to break diplomatic relations with the Republic of Peru, on the basis of Article 45 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961.”
Announcement
The CNE announced that Maduro won by just over 704,114 votes over González Urrutia, the candidate of the majority opposition coalition, when 20% of the votes were still pending, which translates into 2,394,268 votes, the fate of which is unknown and which could significantly change the final results.
The main opposition coalition, the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), claimed that González Urrutia won the presidency by a wide margin and created a website where it uploaded 73% of the electoral records, already consulted by millions of voters, to reinforce its claim.
Lima / EFE
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2024-08-01 14:05:10
