State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller, He explained that his country decided to recognize Edmundo González as “president-elect” because they hoped to corroborate whether the international pressure that other countries and the United States exerted would lead to a change of position on the part of the Maduro government. «He hasn’t done it. So let’s call the facts as we see them and in terms of further actions,” he said.
The United States Department of State ratified its recognition of Edmundo González as “elected president of Venezuela”, one day after the secretary, Antony Blinken, expressed the same position on his social networks.
“Edmundo González not only won the majority of the votes, but as a result of winning the majority of the votes he is the elected president of Venezuela,” the State Department spokesperson said this Wednesday, November 20, at a press conference. Matthew Miller.
The US spokesperson explained that they took this step now because they were “allowing time to pass to see if the international pressure that other countries and the United States were exerting on Maduro would lead to a change of position on his part. He hasn’t done it. So let’s call the facts as we see them and in terms of other actions.
Earlier, the Prime Minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, ratified the recognition of Edmundo González Urrutia as elected president of Venezuela. He reiterated during his visit to Argentina that his country does not recognize the results issued by the National Electoral Council (CNE) that show Nicolás Maduro as the winner.
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«We do not recognize, as we have already said, Maduro’s proclaimed victory after very non-transparent elections. “We continue to condemn the brutal repression of the regime that led to the death of dozens of protesters, the arbitrary detention of thousands of political opponents, and the accusation and exile of the presidential candidate of the democratic opposition,” he reiterated.
He pointed out that the crisis that Venezuela is going through is something that especially touches the hearts of Italy and Argentina. In the case of his country, he said, because there is a colony of Venezuelan citizens who live there.
In his opinion, it is the duty of the international community to raise its voice so that the results of the July 28 elections are respected and, according to the disaggregated data published by the opposition on the internet, González Urrutia would be the winner.
Giorgia Meloni highlighted that they work together with the European Union so that a “democratic and peaceful” transition occurs in Venezuela with the objective of transferring power to the opposition winner in the elections and so that democracy can be restored.
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