He said that, in relation to the electoral process in Venezuela, Mexico has sought to act with prudence so as not to intervene in matters that do not concern it. In the call he will hold with his counterparts, he will present four points.
“We propose first that there be no violence, second that the will of the Venezuelan people be respected, third that evidence be presented, the minutes of the electoral results, and fourth that there be no interference,” he stressed.
Regarding interference, for the fourth consecutive day the president rejected the involvement of several countries or international organizations in an issue that is Venezuela’s responsibility to resolve.
“What unfortunately happened with the Secretary General of the OAS, the election was on Sunday and on Tuesday he declared that the elections had been fraudulent and that his candidate had not won, but that another candidate had won, without having any proof of anything, and without having any legal authority,” he said.
Because it considered the OAS’s actions to be biased, Mexico did not participate in the meeting that was called for Wednesday afternoon. In that session, the votes to ask Venezuela to publish the minutes of the elections that gave the victory to Nicolás Maduro were not enough.
In this regard, the president considered that these are “outdated procedures” and that they involve interventionist practices.
“We are not attending because it seems like an appendage of hegemonic governments or right-wing conservative governments, authoritarian, in fact anti-democratic, but that has nothing to do with the new times. These are outdated procedures from centuries ago,” he said.
