President Nicolas Maduro, who leads the country in an authoritarian manner, was declared the winner of the election, but the integrity of the election result has been widely disputed both inside the country and abroad.
The opposition candidate declared the winner of the elections in Venezuela Edmundo Gonzalez has insisted that the President Nicolas Maduro allows political change to move forward.
– I am asking Nicolas Maduro: respect the will of the Venezuelan people, you are playing with the lives of millions of your comrades, he said.
– Our country’s economy is getting worse every day without a political solution in sight, and you are responsible for that, he added.
Venezuela’s authoritarian President Maduro was declared the country’s election winner, but the integrity of the election result has been widely disputed both inside the country and abroad.
For example, according to the UN, the Venezuelan Electoral Commission (CNE) did not show enough transparency and honesty when handling the results of the country’s presidential elections.
The decision not to publish poll-by-poll results is unprecedented in modern democratic elections, the report says.
Venezuela’s opposition says its candidate Gonzalez won the election overwhelmingly. According to the opposition, the voting results collected from the polling stations show that Gonzalez won.
External powers demanded new elections
The presidents of Brazil and Colombia proposed new elections in Venezuela yesterday.
President of the United States Joe Biden said yesterday that he supports Brazil and Colombia’s demands for new presidential elections in Venezuela.
However, shortly after Biden spoke to reporters at the White House, the National Security Council said he was only talking about the “absurdity” of Nicolas Maduro’s election victory claim.