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The leaders of Brazil, Colombia and Mexico will meet on Monday, September 30, to discuss the electoral situation in Venezuela.
“Brazil would like to be with its great partners, such as Colombia and Mexico, on an issue that is so delicate for the region,” said the secretary for Latin America and the Caribbean of the Brazilian Foreign Ministry, Gisela Padovan, in statements to the press. Brazilian.
So far, none of the three countries have recognized the victory of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela’s presidential elections on July 28, but neither has that of Edmundo González. However, they have agreed that the National Electoral Council (CNE) must present the electoral records.
Both the presidents of Colombia and Brazil, Gustavo Petro and Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva, are on the list of international guests who will attend the inauguration of the new president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, which will take place on October 1.
The three countries have committed to mediate after the CNE declared the victory of Nicolás Maduro in the presidential elections on July 28. The announcement by the electoral body without presenting the tally sheets provoked a series of protests in rejection.
Petro assured on Wednesday, September 25, that His country and Brazil will not recognize the victory of Nicolás Maduro if the minutes of the elections are not presented.
“I am going to chat with President Lula now. We remain at one point: if there is no presentation of minutes, there is no recognition,” he reported in an interview with CNN in Spanish President Gustavo Petro on Wednesday, September 25.
The Colombian president considered that they are “trapped” with the current situation in Venezuela.
“You have an opposition that feels like the government, but is not in the government and a government that did not let the minutes be seen and cannot legitimize the elections,” he added.
Lula Da Silva’s position
Lula Da Silva insisted that his counterpart Nicolás Maduro You must prove that you won those electionswhich took place on July 28 and were denounced as fraudulent by the opposition.
“I think Maduro’s behavior is disappointing. In Brazil we learned (about) democracy with a lot of suffering, although when people are extremist, they do not accept it. I think that Maduro, as president, should prove that he was the favorite of the Venezuelan people, but he does not do it,” Lula declared in an interview with the Brazilian radio station Radio Difusora on September 6.
The Brazilian president explained that, together with the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, they insist on promoting dialogue between Maduro and the Venezuelan opposition.
In that context, Lula He added that Brazil “will not break relations” with Venezuela and will insist on a negotiated solution, although he also clarified that it does not support “unilateral sanctions” against that country either, because that “harms the people, not Maduro.”
With information from EFE
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