Former Argentine President Cristina Fernández on Saturday joined the call for Venezuelan electoral authorities to make transparent and publish the minutes of Sunday’s elections, in which the National Electoral Council (CNE) declared the current president Nicolás Maduro the winner.
At a forum organized by Mexico’s ruling party, the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), Fernández urged the CNE to publish the minutes, “not only for the Venezuelan people, for the opposition and for democracy,” but also “for the legacy of Hugo Chávez,” the former Venezuelan president (1999-2013).
“That is what we have to ask for: that the minutes be published so that everyone can scrutinize them, international public opinion, the opposition, the people of Venezuela,” Fernandez said.
The former Argentine president also said she “fully” agrees with the statement signed on Thursday, August 1 by the governments of Brazil, Mexico and Colombia, where they called on the Venezuelan electoral authorities to “expeditiously” publish the data “broken down by voting table” of the elections.
Fernández said that although the CNE reported that they had been ‘hacked’, which prevented them from publishing the minutes, they also announced the results of a count that covered 96.87% of the votes, detailing the number of voters and the results obtained by each of the ten candidates.
“It is clear that if the scrutiny that was meticulously read yesterday, with decimal precision in each of the candidates that were presented, was able to be carried out, it is because there is a double system, the computer support that was ‘hacked’, but also the support of the minutes that were signed and sent to the National Electoral Council,” he explained.
She also said she was “happy” that the main leader of the Venezuelan opposition, María Corina Machado, came out of “hiding” and led a march in Caracas on Saturday.
On the other hand, he asked to remember that when one speaks of Venezuela, one is “talking about the world’s largest oil reserve.”
“Let us never forget this… let us explain to our Latin American compatriots that there is a country in our territory, in Latin America, that has more oil than the Arabs and that is called Venezuela,” said Fernandez.
He also pointed out that “in Venezuela there are no devils and angels,” but that the political context is complex and violence has been increasing, affecting the population mainly due to the “economy of the blockade” imposed by the United States, which prevents, among other things, the entry of medicines for Venezuelans.
In this regard, he stressed the importance of “non-interference in the affairs of other countries” and the recognition of political and cultural sovereignty in Latin America.
The former Argentine president (2007-2015) traveled to Mexico on Friday night and is expected to meet in the coming days with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and his successor, President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum, in addition to her participation in the closing ceremony of an international course.
Buenos Aires / EFE
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2024-08-04 12:29:56