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EU demands verifiable results from Caracas presidential election

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EU demands verifiable results from Caracas presidential election

▲ Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez accused opposition members Machado and Gonzalez of planning seize political power.Photo Ap

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The newspaper La Jornada
Sunday, August 25, 2024, p. 21

Brussels. The 27 member countries of the European Union (EU) yesterday urged the Venezuelan authorities to publish the verifiable results of the presidential elections held on July 28.

In a statement, they also indicated that the National Electoral Council is the body legally responsible for the electoral process, and not the Supreme Court of Justice, which ratified the victory of President Nicolás Maduro.

Only independently verifiable results will be accepted and recognized to ensure that the will of the Venezuelan people is respected.the EU partners added in the text published by the office of the High Representative for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell.

The EU also recalled that the United Nations Commission of Experts has confirmed that the sample of the minutes published by the opposition contains the security measures of the original protocolswhich confirms its veracity.

According to publicly available copies of the minutes, Edmundo González Urrutia appears to have won the presidential election with a significant majority.they highlighted from Brussels.

They also demand that the the right of all Venezuelans to demonstrate peacefully and freely express their political opinions without fear of reprisalsas well as Prevent excessive use of force, end repression and harassment of the opposition and civil societywhile calling for the release of all political prisoners.

The Venezuelan government repudiated the message of the European Union and called it crude pamphlet.

These statements They sink that block again into the putrid mud, where they were for a long time when they followed the bizarre failed experiment of Juan Guaidó (in reference to the former opposition deputy who proclaimed himself president of Venezuela in January 2019), says an official statement released on Telegram by that country’s foreign minister, Yván Gil.

The Venezuelan government considered that this position of the EU It could become a new leap into the void that will significantly affect diplomatic, political and economic relations..

For her part, the vice president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, warned that opposition leaders María Corina Machado and Edmundo González intended seize political power after the elections.

They want Venezuela to hand it over to the hegemonic powers, to hand it over to the United States, to the governments of Europe, to give away our natural resources, to turn Venezuela into one of the many sheep that the United States government has.Rodríguez said during an event broadcast by the official portal Últimas Noticias.

Meanwhile, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla reaffirmed Cuba’s support for the Venezuelan government and its re-elected president, Nicolás Maduro, describing it as interference international actions to ignore the election results. In the face of interventionist, meddling and imperialist actionsthe Bolivarian and Chavista revolution will remain victorious as her people chosethe head of Cuban diplomacy expressed on the social network X.