Venezuela’s ruling United Socialist Party (PSUV) has rejected a statement by 11 American countries questioning the Supreme Court’s validation of President Nicolás Maduro’s victory in the July 28 elections, saying they are seeking to “support a coup d’état,” according to a statement shared on social media on August 24 by Chavista leaders.
The formation pointed out to the Governments of Guatemala, Chile, Argentina, Costa Rica, Ecuador, the United States, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, the Dominican Republic and Uruguay as “submissive to the interests of the Venezuelan oligarchy,” and He accused them of being “direct accomplices of criminal violence” sparked by post-election protests, for which the government blames the majority opposition.
The PSUV also said that the country will never accept “the tutelage of foreign governments, and even less so of those who, following orders from Washington, seek to turn Latin America into their backyard.”
“No one should interfere in our internal affairs. We demand absolute respect for Venezuela’s sovereignty and independence. They will not be able to stop the march of a people who have decided to be free and who are willing to defend their revolution at any cost,” the party added.
In the joint statement, the 11 countries questioned “the alleged verification” carried out by the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) that “attempts to validate the unsupported results issued” by the National Electoral Council (CNE), which, 27 days after the elections, has not yet published a disaggregated version, despite the fact that it was included in the schedule.
They also recalled that they had “already expressed their ignorance of the validity of the CNE’s declaration” after “opposition representatives were prevented from accessing the official count, the non-publication of the minutes and the subsequent refusal to carry out an impartial and independent audit of all of them.”
In this regard, they reiterated that “only an impartial and independent audit of the votes, which evaluates all the minutes, will guarantee respect for the sovereign popular will and democracy in Venezuela.”
Like “the rest of the international democratic community,” they added, they will continue “insisting on respect for the sovereign expression of the Venezuelan people.”
The Maduro government also rejected this statement and called the 11 countries violent accomplices.
For its part, the majority opposition, grouped in the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), claims that its standard-bearer, Edmundo González Urrutia, won by a wide margin, and published “83.5% of the electoral records,” compiled by witnesses and table members, to support its claim, backed by several countries and national and international organizations.
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