Caracas, Aug 4 (EFE).- Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado on Sunday thanked Spain, Italy, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland and Portugal for their “commitment to Venezuelan democracy,” after they signed a joint declaration asking electoral authorities to publish all voting records from last Sunday’s presidential election.
“On behalf of the Venezuelan people, I appreciate this important joint statement from the governments of Italy, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Poland and Portugal, reaffirming their commitment to democracy in Venezuela,” Machado wrote on the social network X.
The former deputy supported the demand that the minutes presented by the largest anti-Chavez coalition, the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), be verified as soon as possible, “at an international and independent level,” given that “the regime did not do so within the time limits established by law.”
“We also appreciate the call to stop the persecution and repression that has been cruelly deployed in recent hours against innocent people who are only demanding that the popular sovereignty they exercised last Sunday be respected,” he added.
Machado insisted that the minutes of the voting witnesses in “more than 80% of the tables and available at resultsconvzla.com, leave no room for doubt. Edmundo González Urrutia is the president-elect of Venezuela,” despite the fact that the National Electoral Council (CNE) proclaimed President Nicolás Maduro as the winner.
Chavismo dismisses these documents and does not consider them valid.
On Saturday, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland and Portugal signed the joint declaration in which they call on “the Venezuelan authorities to publish without delay all voting records in order to guarantee the full transparency and integrity of the electoral process.”
In this initiative, promoted by Italy and France, they expressed “deep concern about the situation in Venezuela following the presidential elections last Sunday.”
“We call on the Venezuelan authorities to publish all voting records without delay in order to ensure the full transparency and integrity of the electoral process,” it reads.
On Friday, the CNE offered a second balance of results in which it confirmed Maduro’s victory with 51.95% of the votes, while González Urrutia obtained 43.18% of the votes, with the counting of 96.87% of the transmitted minutes, which have not yet been published.EFE
