- Former Vice President Francisco Santos said that this rally or this call is for Venezuelans residing in the Colombian capital to protest against the results of the presidential elections offered by the CNE | Main photo: EFE
Former Vice President of Colombia Francisco Santos (2002-2010) called for a sit-in on August 1 at 11:00 am (Venezuela time) at the Venezuelan consulate in Bogotá, located in the Teusaquillo sector.
Santos said that this rally is for Venezuelans residing in the Colombian capital to raise their voices in protest against the results issued by the National Electoral Council (CNE) in the early hours of July 29. electoral body announced that Maduro had obtained 51.20% of the votes in the presidential elections on July 28.
“Venezuelan, does what is happening on the other side of the country hurt you? It hurts us Colombians too because what happens there has an impact here. That is why tomorrow at 10:00 am (Colombian time), in front of the dictatorship’s consulate, we want to see you all. Both Venezuelans and Colombians (will be) shouting in one voice: Maduro out,” Santos said in a video posted on his account on the social network X.
The former Colombian vice president denounced on the night of July 30 that there was supposedly a team of 150 employees in some warehouses that, according to him, belong to the CNE. Santos stated that the objective of the people who were in that supposed warehouse was to print the minutes of the scrutiny issued by the electoral body to present them before August 2. However, no one has confirmed this information.
“All this (is) to print all the new reports and present them to the international observers before Friday, August 2. They are dressed in grey underwear, without pockets and they are not allowed to use cell phones. The Chinese arrived from the situation room in Cuba in the early hours of today, aboard a Conviasa flight,” said Francisco Santos.
Petro asked for a “transparent scrutiny”
For his part, the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, spoke out on Wednesday, July 31, to demand that the Venezuelan government allow “transparent scrutiny with vote counting and minutes” with “international and professional” observation.
“The vote count is the end of every electoral process, it must be transparent and ensure peace and democracy,” the president wrote on his X account.
In his message, Petro also urged Nicolás Maduro to “accept” the transparent result “whatever it may have been” to allow the “Venezuelan people to return to tranquility.”
This would be the third official statement by the Colombian government after the results announced by the CNE of the presidential elections in Venezuela. Foreign Minister Luis Gilberto Murillo said on Tuesday, July 30, that “it is necessary to count all of Venezuela’s electoral records and audit them.”
“For the peace of Venezuela, it is necessary to know all the minutes of the final results and for them to be audited by the world. The international community and the Venezuelan people expect transparency and electoral guarantees for all sectors to prevail, and it is also extremely important to clear up any doubts about the counting,” Murillo said in a video released by the Foreign Ministry.
On Monday, July 29, the Colombian Foreign Ministry called for “rejecting violence” and “preserving peace” after thousands of citizens took to the streets in Venezuela to protest against the results announced by the CNE, which gave victory to Nicolás Maduro.
Opposition leader María Corina Machado and presidential candidate Edmundo González said they had received more than 84% of the votes, which, she said, show that González Urrutia has 70% of the votes, compared to Maduro’s 30%.
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2024-08-01 18:27:58
