In a conversation with Costa Rican President María Corina Machado, he insisted that the main opposition coalition, with Edmundo González Urrutia as candidate, won the elections by a wide margin.
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said that “the only thing left” for President Nicolás Maduro is the support of the military leadership, following the disputed elections of July 28.
“The only thing left is a very small number of high-ranking military officers, that is the only thing left, because even the bases of our armed forces, our police forces, the PSUV [partido no poder] They are not with him, because they do not want violence and they do not want lies,” Machado said Wednesday.
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In a conversation with Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves, the leader insisted that the main opposition coalition, with Edmundo González Urrutia as candidate, won the elections by a wide margin.
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Machado recalled that the United Democratic Platform published 83.5% of the electoral records online, which are “proof of victory.”
The National Electoral Council (CNE) of Venezuela attributed the victory to Nicolás Maduro with just over 51% of the votes, but continues without publishing the minuteswhich violates legal norms, the opposition leader lamented.
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If the ruling regime presents ballots that validate Maduro’s victory, these “will be evidence of fraud,” considering that these documents have inviolable indicators of authenticity.
Machado asked Chaves to “help them think” of new diplomatic initiatives to increase pressure on Maduro’s government, which has demanded re-election for a third six-year term.
“All these actions by the international community must be united and coordinated. so that the regime knows that no one here is going to validate this and so that the world knows that we are not turning the page here (…) we cannot let this continue,” he said.
Thousands of Venezuelans have taken to the streets to protest against the official results released by the country’s CNE, in demonstrations that were violently repressed by the police, who have already arrested more than 2,200 people.
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Machado said that “The repression has been brutal”with 24 deaths recorded during the protests.
In response to the protests, Nicolás Maduro stepped up police and military repression to confront what he described on Wednesday as “a cybernetic, fascist and criminal coup d’état.”
The president of Venezuela stated that The CNE system has received “30 million attacks per minute” since the presidential elections on July 28. and pointed the finger at South African tycoon Elon Musk and a “Satanic cult of billionaires leading the United States.”
The president of the CNE, Elvis Amoroso, also denounced last Friday that the organization has suffered “massive cyber attacks from different parts of the world” that “delayed the transmission of the minutes and the process of publishing the results.”
Source: Observadora
