- José Manuel Albares will appear at an extraordinary session of the Commission on Ibero-American Affairs of that organization | Main photo: EFE/Pedro Puente Hoyos
Spain’s Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares announced on Sunday, August 4, that his country’s government will present its position on the Venezuelan elections on Tuesday, August 13, in the Spanish Parliament.
Albares will appear before the Senate of his country at his own request during an extraordinary session of the Ibero-American Affairs Committee of that body.
The official insisted that the results of the elections in Venezuela must be able to be verified with “total transparency,” for which he stressed that it is important to present the minutes of the vote count in order to verify who was the winner in the electoral contest of July 28.
Albares also called for “calm, civility and the guarantee of fundamental rights” in relation to the protests that have taken place in the country after the first bulletin was released by the National Electoral Council (CNE) and which declared Nicolás Maduro the winner of the elections.
The president of the Spanish government, the socialist Pedro Sánchez, is one of the European leaders who has signed a declaration in which they express their concern about the situation in Venezuela.
The governments of seven countries belonging to the European Union (EU) have requested the publication of the minutes of these elections and condemned any threats against any Venezuelan politician.
The declaration was signed by Sánchez, French President Emmanuel Macron; German Chancellor Olaf Scholz; and the Prime Ministers of Italy, Giorgia Meloni; Portugal, Luis Montenegro; Poland, Donald Tusk; and the Netherlands, Dick Schoof.
Several countries, including the United States, Peru, Argentina, Uruguay and Costa Rica, have recognized the victory of the opposition candidate, Edmundo González. So far, the Electoral Power has not released the detailed results of the elections, while the opposition created a web portal where it published more than 80% of the minutes issued by the voting machines.
Due to the doubts that exist about the election results, Venezuelans living abroad gathered in several cities around the world to express their rejection of the announcement made by the president of the CNE, Elvis Amoroso.
Venezuelan protests around the world
Venezuelans living in various countries responded to the call for peaceful protest on August 3 made by opposition leader María Corina Machado in order to reject the results announced by the Electoral Power, which declared Nicolás Maduro the winner of the presidential elections of July 28.
Through social media, for example, it was learned that in the Plaza de Bolívar in the city of Bogotá, several citizens gathered there with banners and Venezuelan flags from the early hours of the morning on Saturday, August 3.
Mariluz Colmenares, director of the Comando Con Venezuela in Colombia, was interviewed by the journalist of the newspaper Time Gabriel Ávila reiterated that the call made by the free opposition is to demonstrate peacefully without causing disturbances.
“The call is not to create unrest but to reconcile. We have to raise our voices to defend that vote that you cast. We are going to regain freedom. We have already won and we are going to collect,” said Colmenares.
Dozens of fellow citizens also gathered outside the White House in Washington DC (United States) to reject the election results. Several of them were singing the national anthem.
In Brussels (Belgium) and Luxembourg, images were also released of Venezuelans who responded to the opposition’s call for peaceful protest. “We have the minutes, we want democracy,” was one of the slogans that the demonstrators shouted in the Belgian capital.
With information from EFE
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2024-08-05 02:45:59
