Gustavo Petro emphasized that a common initiative like the one he had with Brazil and Mexico will no longer be possible to materialize.
The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, said this Tuesday, November 19, that the elections in Venezuela on July 28 were “a mistake” to carry out and pointed out that the administration of Nicolás Maduro had “dark” behavior around the elections, since there was no clarity about the results that led to the current president’s victory, according to the CNE proclamation without showing the disaggregated data that would support him.
Petro, in an interview with O Globo during the G20 summit, highlighted that the initiative to build a bloc position – like the one he tried to do together with Brazil and Mexico – lost strength and that at this moment it would no longer be possible to carry it out. ; This after the Mexican president, Claudia Sheinbaum, said that her country remained neutral regarding the Venezuelan issue and the statements of the Brazilian head of state, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who in recent days asserted that it is not his problem. country what happens in Venezuela.
«Just as they criticize the elections from the point of view of the behavior of the Venezuelan Government, dark, it did not generate clarity about what they claim, that they won the elections, and left that map dark by not showing the minutes. The demand for a radical change of government at this time is not realistic, but I believe that there will be a moment when Venezuela knows, its people know, that by agreeing on how they are going to shield their country from harmful agents for his society,” said the Colombian president.
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BREAKING NEWS | Petro affirms that the presidential elections in Venezuela were a “mistake” and expressed “there is no free vote if there is a blockade.”
“I believe that a common front on Venezuela, whatever the policy, will no longer exist.” https://t.co/ZiEnnEbF2w pic.twitter.com/v6ZJtk8tXl
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On the other hand, Colombian media indicate that the G20 was expected to be a space to talk about the Venezuelan crisis but that, according to officials, the issue has not been discussed.
TO end of octoberthe Colombian Foreign Minister, Luis Gilberto Murillo, warned that if the government of Nicolás Maduro did not show the electoral records before 10, 2025, his country would not recognize the results announced by the National Electoral Council (CNE), in the who 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 term, on January 10, 2025. Otherwise, as the President has already expressed, Colombia will not grant recognition to the results,” the Colombian chancellor wrote on his social networks.
With information from BluRadio / The Spectator
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