Mexico’s president-elect also questioned the international attention on the case and the OAS statement. Sheinbaum and López Obrador still do not consider the count complete
Claudia Sheinbaum, the president-elect of Mexico, called for “transparency” in the results of the Venezuelan election and to avoid violence in the country.
“I think we should wait for the final count, make the vote transparent, that always helps, and leave the self-determination of the people of Venezuela. And, at the same time, that there is no violence, that everything is peaceful,” said Sheinbaum at a press conference in which she gave her first statements on the subject.
Sheinbaumwho will assume the presidency on October 1, replied to the arguments of the current president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who in the morning considered that it is still “necessary” for the National Electoral Council (CNE) of Venezuela to release the complete results of the elections, but also denounced “interference.”
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Sheinbaum and López Obrador still do not consider the count complete.
“I heard the president (López Obrador) talk about the 80% counted this morning, we must also wait until the end of the count. So I think the first thing is transparency in the result, that the counting is finished, and the second thing is to also say that we do not agree with interventionism,” said Sheinbaum.
The future president, who received congratulations from Maduro after winning the Mexican elections on June 2, argued that “Venezuela is a free, sovereign country, and the self-determination of the Venezuelan people must be recognized.”
In this regard, he questioned “the international attention that there has been and the OAS (Organization of American States) statement already qualifying the election,” reported the EFE agency.
The CNE has only reported that, with nearly 80% of the tables counted, President Maduro obtained 51.2% of the votes, compared to 44.2% obtained by the opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia, backed by the leader María Corina Machado.
The opposition, which has called for protests against the CNE’s announcement, said it had received more than 40% of the minutes of the process, with which, it claims, the partial result awarded González Urrutia 70% of the votes, compared to 30% for Maduro.
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