Washington.- The Organization of American States (OAS)based in Washington, called an extraordinary meeting to address the results of the elections in Venezuela, held this Sunday, which have been questioned by the Venezuelan opposition and several countries in the region.
The Permanent Council meeting, which will take place on Wednesday, was convened at the request of twelve member countries, including all Latin American governments, which Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro ordered today to withdraw their diplomatic personnel from Caracas.
So far, the organization has not commented on the elections, amid rejection by the international community and the Venezuelan opposition of the results delivered by the National Electoral Council (CNE) that gave victory today to the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro.
The Government of Venezuela today demanded Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Peru, Panama, Dominican Republic and Uruguay to immediately withdraw their representatives from Venezuelan territory, in retaliation for having expressed concern about the conduct of the presidential elections.
The CNE today officially declared victory to the current president, in power since 2013, with 51.2% of the votes, the same result it gave on Sunday night when 80% of the votes had been counted and there were still more than two million votes left to count.
Meanwhile, the candidate for the majority opposition, Edmundo González Urrutia, obtained 44.2% of the votes, according to the first and only public report of the CNE, which did not specify which candidates received the 2,394,268 votes that were not reported.
Several countries on the continent, including the United States, have already demanded that the Venezuelan government publish the voting records and carry out a “transparent” recount.
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