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Montevideo says González Urrutia won but still not president-elect
Appointing the president-elect “is a formal process that has not yet taken place,” Paganini explained Uruguayan Foreign Minister Omar Paganini said Friday that there was an “overwhelming amount of information” whereby opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia may be considered the winner of Sunday's elections. However, Montevideo could not recognize him as president-elect because that legal procedure was up to the Venezuelan authorities.
“There is no doubt that there is an overwhelming amount of information that gives the winner to Edmundo González Urrutia,” Paganini stressed. “We see that there is a great pressure and there is a public opinion that is consolidating around that this was a fraud and that it can be reverted and reversed,” he added. Paganini also noted that Uruguay was not alone in feeling this way about the Venezuelan crisis.
“The information presented by the government is incomplete, the minutes are not shown, [and] independent reviews are not accepted,” Paganini also explained. “They say numbers that from the beginning clearly did not add up.”
“The government is not credible and the opposition took the trouble and in an unprecedented task of scanning 100% of the minutes and they are on the Internet for everybody to see,” the minister elaborated.
“They are minutes that have not been discussed, that have the QR code, that have signatures, handwritten data by people from the Venezuelan Electoral Commission. That overwhelming information also gives very similar to what the polls, the surveys at the time of the election gave; 67%, 68% for the opposition, 30% for the government,” added Paganini.
“Some have already said more or less the same as we did today, Peru, Costa Rica, the United States, [and] Argentina. And there are others who are demanding an independent review and an independent count, that the detailed information be made known,” he underlined.
“Some things that were under discussion a couple of days ago are not under discussion today. Today Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico are asking for it. The clamor for the data to be put on the table and for an independent review is getting louder and louder,” he also noted.
“We go one step further, we say that we are sure that this review will result in González Urrutia winning,” he hoped while making it clear that the Uruguayan government technically does not yet recognize González Urrutia as president-elect, but as the winner of the July 28 elections. “We believe that assuming the elected presidency and so on is a formal process that has not yet taken place,” he explained.
On Friday afternoon, Machado, who assured that she is in “clandestinity” because she fears for her life and freedom, announced that 100% of the polling stations had been counted. The numbers of Sunday's election, according to this website, show that Gonzalez defeated Maduro with 7,156,462 votes over 3,241,461.
At least seven countries in the Americas have recognized Edmundo González Urrutia as the winner of Venezuela's elections: The United States, Peru, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Argentina, Uruguay, and Panama.
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Read all commentsStop talking so much bloody rubbish Brassole, nobody is going to invade Venezuela, no one knows for certain if it was a free and fair election unless an independent audit is carried out, Maduro is a dictator and dictators do not play by the rules, , China is not close to a war with the west at all, Chinese needs the western markets to sell its goods, as for Russia, their military is a joke, you do post so much idiotic crap,
Aug 03rd, 2024 - 03:13 pm +1Another explanation for Brasi's automaton thinking might be that he and his college communist club are sponsored by the Chinese Embassy in Brazil.
Aug 04th, 2024 - 11:47 pm +1In order for the money to continue coming, the broken record needs to continue skipping.
Bras,
Aug 04th, 2024 - 03:49 pm 0It is not “President Maduro” it is “Dictator Maduro”.
The world is not demanding that a sovereign country provide access to electoral data,
the world is demanding that Dictator Maduro provide access to electoral data.
The only people usurping Venezuela sovereignty are Maduro and his drug mafioso thugs, with funding from China and Russia.
Sovereignty belongs to the people, not to a bunch of murdering thugs.
If you really cared about sovereignty, you would oppose Maduro.
But with you, sovereignty does not belong to the people, sovereignty belongs to the group that opposes your hated West.
If that west opposing group puts innocent people in jail, disappears people, and causes children to go hungry, that goes right by a shit like you.
Just as long as that group opposes the West, that group is the legitimate leader.
That is your twisted definition of sovereignty.
You don't really care about sovereignty anyway. Your hollow call for sovereignty is just more of your fork-tongued bullshit taught to you by your fork-tongued lying pal Vladmir Putin.
Russia and China screw their people over royally, that doesn't matter to you because you have been brainwashed by them to be a shit.
Listen carefully,
If he f*cking won, he would have released the electoral data!
The Venezuelan people are being screwed and all that is in your brainwashed head is your hatred for the west that was put in there.
Your brain is dead.
famous quote from Comrade Bras:
“no country or organization has ever demanded this from any country in history”
Russia and China screw with every election they can! Russia stole Belarussian sovereignty when they installed Lukashenko, Russia is trying to choose Ukraine's leader also. Stealing that choice from that country's people.
We don't hear a word out of you about “sacred sovereignty” for dictators that really are usurping a people's sovereignty.
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