The Venezuelan opposition showed the Chilean Senate the voting records that they are using as proof of the claimed victory of Edmundo González Urrutia in the elections on July 28 and with which they seek to have the international community recognize him as president starting in January.
“These are not the minutes of María Corina Machado, they are not the minutes of Edmundo González Urrutia, they are not the minutes of the opposition, they are the minutes that were issued by the National Electoral Council (CNE) with the results and that we recovered in an exercise of citizenship and vocation,” said Gustavo Silva, electoral expert from the Con Venezuela Command, which brings together political parties and opposition organizations.
The CNE proclaimed in those elections the re-election of Nicolás Maduro as president of Venezuela, but the organization has not yet published the minutes with the disaggregated results, despite calls from the United States, the European Union or Latin American countries such as Brazil or Colombia.
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The Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), the main opposition coalition in the country, published on a website some minutes that it claims to have collected through witnesses and polling station members on the day of the elections that give González as the winner with more than double the votes. Urrutia, exiled in Spain since September.
“From now until January 10, we have, by inter-American mandate and commitment to democracy, truth and human rights, a unique field of action to recognize these results,” Silva said at a press point in the Chilean Senate.
The exhibition of the minutes takes place after the United States recognized González Urrutia as president of Venezuela for the first time, something that countries such as Argentina or Peru have already done.
In a statement to a television channel after his recognition by the United States, González Urrutia stressed that he remains firm in his intention to return to Venezuela on January 10 to be sworn in as president of that country, as mandated by the Constitution.
The European Union has recently honored González Urrutia and Machado with the 2024 Sakharov Prize.
“We have not forgotten Venezuela and we are going to persist in supporting them until Edmundo González assumes the mandate given to him by the people of Venezuela,” said Matías Walker, vice president of the Chilean Senate, at the same press point this Wednesday.
The Chilean president, Gabriel Boric, who has always been one of the most critical voices against Maduro, was the first international leader to demand transparency during the election day of July 28 and insists that he will not validate any result that is not verified by ” independent international organizations”.
Chile is one of the seven Latin American countries that had to withdraw their diplomatic missions from Venezuela after Maduro’s order in July rejecting his “interference” statements regarding the presidential elections.
Santiago / EFE
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