Led by Maria Corina Machado, the opposition says it has the evidence to prove its triumph, while the international community pushes for a transparent vote count.
The European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, attends a meeting with Vietnam’s Foreign Minister.
The head of European Union diplomacy, Josep Borrell, called on Wednesday for the publication of the detailed results of theVenezuelan presidential electionsWithout which Nicolas Maduro’s re-election “cannot be recognized.”
The EU calls for a“immediate access to the voting records of all polling stations,”Borrell told the press during a visit to Vietnam.
“Until the authorities publish the minutes and are not verified, the results announced may not be recognised.”
Josep Borrell,
Head of the European Union.
Since the victory of outgoing President Nicolas Maduro was proclaimed on Monday,The opposition has denounced a “massive fraud”and demands a transparent count of the votes, insistently demanded by the international community.
Thousands of opposition supportersthey manifested themselvesTuesday to claim the victory of its candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, who urged not to suppress the protests, thatAt least 12 were left dead and hundreds detained.
Led by Maria Corina Machado, the opposition says it has the evidence to prove its triumph, while the international community pushes for a transparent vote count.
Nicolás Maduro blamed González Urrutia and Machado for the violence in the demonstrations, and said that “justice is going to come.”
The dissemination of the voting minutes is also a request from the international community that questions Maduro’s re-election, including its neighboring countries Colombia and Brazil, and the United States.
The president of Mexico, the leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador, asked not to put “the noses” in Venezuela to those who question and even denounce a fraud in the elections.
The Venezuelan government expelled diplomatic personnel from Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Panama, Peru, the Dominican Republic and Uruguay in the face of what it considered “exercise” actions.
Six collaborators from Machado have been in refugees at the Argentine embassy for weeks, who denounced a police siege to the diplomatic headquarters to which he was cut off on Tuesday. Argentina said it is a “harassment” against its diplomatic headquarters.
This article has been translated after first appearing in Diario El Mundo