Tens of thousands of protesters invaded the streets of Venezuela to support opposition leader and presidential candidate Edmundo González. Machado said that the opposition coalition has obtained more than 84% of the tally sheets. Maduro says there is a coup d’état underway.
Criticism of the president Nicolas Maduro Venezuelans intensified on Tuesday, a day after electoral authorities declared him the winner in a presidential election that the opposition claims to have won by a landslide.
The opposition leader Maria Corina Machadofrom the top of a truck in the capital, Caracas, asked the National Electoral Council, loyal to the ruling party, to make public the tally reports prepared by each electoral college, asking “why they are not published.”
Machado said that the opposition coalition has obtained more than 84% of the scrutiny records and that he trusts that the opposition candidate Edmundo González has been chosen to be the new president in Sunday’s elections.
“The only thing we are willing to negotiate is the peaceful transition“Machado said as the crowd chanted: “We are not afraid!”
While thousands of people demonstrated throughout Venezuelaopposition candidate Edmundo González announced on Monday that his campaign has the necessary evidence to prove that he won the country’s disputed elections, whose victory the electoral authorities gave to President Nicolás Maduro.
González and the opposition leader Maria Corina Machado They told journalists that the tally sheets from Sunday’s elections show González with more than twice as many votes as Maduro. Both They called on citizens to calmsome of whom protested in the hours after Maduro was declared the winner, and invited them to peacefully gather at 11 a.m. this Tuesday to celebrate the results.
“I speak to you with the tranquility of the truth,” he said. González as dozens of supporters cheered outside the campaign headquarters in the capital, Caracas. “We have the scrutiny records in our hands that demonstrate our categorical and mathematically irreversible victory”.
For their part, Venezuelan government leaders intensified their attacks on their opponents on Tuesday, with some suggesting that the most influential opposition leader and a presidential candidate be arrested, while foreign countries, including key ally Brazil and the US. USA, they reported a lack of transparency in the disputed presidential elections.
President Nicolás Maduro was declared the winner by a National Electoral Council that is loyal to him and the ruling party, the attacks, which were broadcast on national television, followed the surprise publication by the opposition of detailed voting data which, he said, show that Edmundo González won by an overwhelming majority.
He Electoral Council has not made public the results of the voting centers, which come from the minutes that the more than 30,000 electronic voting machines print after the polls close. He is not required to do so, but in previous elections he has posted the figures online within hours.
The president of USAJoe Biden, and the BrazilLuiz Inácio Lula da Silva, agreed on Tuesday that Venezuela should make public the detailed data of Sunday’s presidential vote.
Biden and Lula – an ally of Maduro – “agreed on the need for the Venezuelan electoral authorities to immediately disclose complete, transparent and detailed voting data at the polling station level,” according to a White House statement that summarizes the phone call between both leaders.
The result “represents a critical moment for democracy in the hemisphere,” the presidents said.
“Elections cannot be considered democratic”
He Carter Center said it was unable to verify the results of Venezuela’s presidential election, blaming authorities for a “complete lack of transparency” in declaring Nicolás Maduro the winner without providing any individual vote counts.
The Tuesday night statement by the group based in Atlanta is perhaps the harshest rebuke yet of Venezuela’s chaotic electoral process, coming as it does from one of the few outside groups invited by the Maduro government to observe the vote.
“The electoral authority’s failure to announce the results broken down by electoral college constitutes a serious violation of electoral principles,” the Carter Center said. The group, which had a technical mission of 17 experts distributed in four cities in Venezuela, added that the elections They did not meet international standards and “cannot be considered democratic”.
