United States and Chile query election leads to Venezuela | EUROtoday

The United States and Chile have been the primary American international locations to query Nicolás Maduro's electoral victory in Venezuela. Joe Biden's Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, expressed from Tokyo, the place he’s on a tour, the White House's “serious concerns” that “the announced results do not reflect the will or the votes of the Venezuelan people.” “The international community is watching this very closely and will respond accordingly,” he warned, and referred to as for a “fair and transparent” recount of the votes.

“It is vitally important that every vote is counted fairly and transparently,” Blinken mentioned in remarks to reporters throughout a break in a gathering additionally attended by U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and his Japanese counterparts Kamikawa Yoko and Kihara Minor. Just after 11 p.m. in Caracas, Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (CNE) declared Maduro the winner with 51.2% of the vote, towards 44.2% for opposition candidate Edmundo González.

Meanwhile, Chilean President Gabriel Boric, a leftist, warned that he doesn’t consider the outcomes launched by the CNE. “The Maduro regime must understand that the results it publishes are difficult to believe. The international community and above all the Venezuelan people, including the millions of Venezuelans in exile, demand total transparency of the minutes and the process, and that international observers not beholden to the government account for the veracity of the results. From Chile we will not recognize any result that is not verifiable,” he wrote on his social networks.

The Venezuelan response got here minutes later, by way of its overseas minister, Yvan Gil. “Perhaps your incompetence is the cause of not knowing that the sons of Bolívar and Chávez do not need your devalued recognition, here we defeated fascism with votes and popular support, and we are also free of tutelage, something that unfortunately your government can never say. Take care of your problems!” wrote the minister.

The Peruvian authorities of Dina Boluarte additionally warned that it’ll not acknowledge Maduro's victory. Foreign Minister Javier González-Olaechea condemned “the accumulation of irregularities with the intention of fraud by the Venezuelan government.” The official introduced that he had determined to name his ambassador in Caracas for consultations.

Hours earlier than the outcomes have been introduced by the CNE, the overseas ministers of Argentina, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, the Dominican Republic and Uruguay had requested in a press release that the vote of Venezuelans be revered. “We consider it essential to have guarantees that the electoral results will fully respect the popular will expressed by the Venezuelan people at the polls. This can only be achieved through a transparent vote count, which allows verification and control by observers and delegates of all candidates.”

There have been additionally congratulations from the international locations that make up the informally referred to as Bolivarian axis. The presidents of Cuba, Nicaragua, Bolivia and Honduras, all ideologically aligned with Chavismo, congratulated Nicolás Maduro within the early hours of Monday. “I spoke with brother Nicolas Maduro to convey warm congratulations on behalf of the Party, the Government and the Cuban people for the historic electoral victory achieved, after an impressive demonstration of the Venezuelan people. I reaffirmed Cuba’s solidarity,” wrote Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel on the social community X. “Today the dignity and courage of the Venezuelan people triumphed over pressures and manipulations,” he added.

For their half, the Nicaraguan presidential couple made up of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo despatched Maduro a letter that was revealed by Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil, through which they salute the “great victory” that the “heroic people deliver to the eternal commander.” [como se refieren a Hugo Chávez] In his birthday”.

The presidents of Bolivia, Luis Arce, and Honduras, Xiomara Castro, also referred to Chávez in their congratulations. “We congratulate the Venezuelan people and President Nicolás Maduro for the electoral victory of this historic July 28. A great way to remember Commander Hugo Chávez. We have closely followed this democratic celebration and we welcome the fact that the will of the Venezuelan people has been respected at the polls,” wrote the Bolivian in X.

For her part, the Honduran leader sent a “congratulations and a democratic, socialist and revolutionary greeting to President Nicolas Maduro and the courageous individuals of Venezuela for his or her unquestionable victory, which reaffirms their sovereignty and the historic legacy of the commander.”

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