Mexican President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum on Tuesday called for “transparency” in the results of Venezuela’s election, without yet recognizing the proclaimed victory of President Nicolás Maduro, but also criticizing foreign “interventionism” in the process.
“I believe that we should wait for the final count, make the vote transparent, that always helps, and leave the self-determination of the people of Venezuela. And, at the same time, that there is no violence, that everything is peaceful,” said Sheinbaum at a press conference in which she gave her first statements on the subject.
Sheinbaum, who will assume the presidency on October 1, responded to the arguments of the current Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who in the morning considered that it is still “necessary” for the National Electoral Council (CNE) of Venezuela to release the complete results of the elections, but also denounced “interference.”
Although the CNE proclaimed Maduro as the re-elected president of Venezuela on Monday, Sheinbaum and López Obrador still do not consider the count complete.
“This morning I heard the president (López Obrador) talk about the 80% counted, we also have to wait until the end of the count. So I think the first thing is transparency in the result, that the counting is finished, and the second thing is to also say that we do not agree with interventionism,” said Sheinbaum.
The future president, who received congratulations from Maduro after winning the Mexican elections on June 2, argued that “Venezuela is a free, sovereign country, and the self-determination of the Venezuelan people must be recognized.”
In this regard, he questioned “the international attention that there has been and the OAS (Organization of American States) statement already qualifying the election.”
The CNE has only reported that, with nearly 80% of the tables counted, President Maduro obtained 51.2% of the votes, compared to 44.2% obtained by the opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia, backed by the leader María Corina Machado.
The opposition, which has called for protests against possible fraud, said it had received more than 40% of the minutes of the process, with which, it claims, the partial result awarded González Urrutia 70% of the votes, compared to 30% for Maduro.
López Obrador and Sheinbaum have compared what is happening now in Venezuela with his allegations of fraud in the 2006 Mexican elections, when he lost by a difference of 0.56% to Felipe Calderón (2006-2012) and President Vicente Fox (2000-2006) opposed the recount of votes.
“It is important, as we suggested at the time in 2006, that this result be made known, that it be made transparent, so that there is no room for confusion. To the extent that there is more transparency, the results of the election can be shown,” she stressed now.
Mexico City / EFE
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2024-07-31 12:14:00
