2024-08-03 10:43:26
At least seven countries across the American continent recognized Edmundo Gonzalez as the winner of Venezuela’s election after Venezuela’s electoral body announced on Monday that President Nicolás Maduro had been charged with irregularities.
The U.S. government commented on the matter Thursday. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement that given the overwhelming evidence, “it is clear to the United States and, more importantly, to the people of Venezuela that Edmundo Gonzalez received a majority of the vote in the December 28 presidential election.” .
Countries that recognize Edmundo Gonzalez
Opposition leader María Collina Machado leads the Democratic Unity Platform coalition, which nominated González for president. headmaster PeruJavier González-Olaechea announced on Tuesday that he recognized González’s victory.
“He is the legitimately elected president of Venezuela,” he told the media. “Based on the fraud that (I believe Maduro) committed as a man who hoped to permanently stay in power through a dictatorship.”
Ecuador, Costa Rica, Argentina, Uruguay and Panama said the same on Friday.
Maduro, for his part, rejected the U.S. position. Speaking at an event in Caracas on Thursday, he said the United States had now spoken out “to say Venezuela has another president,” and responded that Washington “must stay out of Venezuela.” He also attacked the media for agreeing with Blinken’s comments and assured that his “patience is running out.”
Maduro sarcastically charged: “The process in Venezuela is not completed legally, constitutionally, institutionally, and the United States said today that it has minutes and evidence because they are the National Electoral Council.”
Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa issued a statement on the results of social networks “.
As far as he is concerned, Rodrigo Chavez, President of Costa Rica He also said that
As for PanamaPresident José Raul Mulino said he, like González, recognized the election and hoped that “respect for public opinion becomes the basis of democracy.”
In the same sense, Argentinian cancer patient Diana Mondino Said in
Uruguayan Foreign Minister Omar Paganini also spoke on the same social network, in which he noted that for his country it was “clear” that González received a majority of votes and asked for respect for the Venezuelan people will.
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