Luis Gilberto Murillo, Foreign Minister of Colombia, ratified the position of President Gustavo Petro, on the importance of the National Electoral Council (CNE), publishing the minutes that demonstrate in a disaggregated manner the triumph of President Nicolás Maduro in the last elections on December 28. July and which has been described as “fraud” by the opposition
The minister of Exteriors Colombian, Luis Gilberto Murillo, warned that if the government of Nicolás Maduro does not show the electoral records before 10, 2025, his country will not recognize the results announced by the National Electoral Council (CNE), in which it named the president as the winner of the presidential elections on July 28.
«The position of the National Government remains clear: the presentation of the minutes must be carried out before the end of the current presidential period, on January 10, 2025. Otherwise, as the President has already expressed, Colombia will not grant recognition to the results,” the Colombian foreign minister wrote on his social networks.
The Governments of Colombia and Brazil have tried to mediate in the crisis that Venezuela is experiencing since the National Electoral Council (CNE) announced Maduro’s victory. Neither the administration of Gustavo Petro and that of Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva, respectively, have recognized Maduro’s re-election.
Nor have they opted for the victory of the opposition candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia. These governments called on the CNE to publish the electoral records and to open paths of dialogue between the parties.
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On September 25, the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, pointed out in an interview with CNN that Colombia and Brazil have a common position: “if there is no presentation of minutes, there is no recognition.”
On August 22, the Electoral Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) of Venezuela, chaired by Chavista Caryslia Rodríguez, validated the official results of the elections, questioned inside and outside the country.
Meanwhile, the majority opposition – grouped in the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD) – maintains that its standard-bearer, González Urrutia, is the winner of the elections based on “83.5% of the electoral records”, collected by witnesses and members table on election day, to reinforce their claim.
To date, the CNE has not published the disaggregated results – as established by its schedule – that confirm Maduro’s victory, despite numerous requests from the opposition and a large part of the international community.
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