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I have told the Electoral Chamber that I am willing to be summoned, interrogated ... investigated by the Electoral Chamber as the winning presidential candidate of Sunday's elections and as head of state; I am showing up, I am submitting to justice."
In remarks to the press upon leaving the court, Maduro said The bosses (of the protesters) should go to prison,
Our patience and that of the international community is running out,
said White House national security spokesperson John Kirby on Wednesday I alert the world about a cruel and repressive escalation by the regime,
Machado said on X on Wednesday You will belong to the victory!"
Machado on Wednesday thanked election witnesses and those who had uploaded their tallies to the opposition's website, saying The United Socialist Party of Venezuela is ready to present 100% of the electoral tallies that are in our hands,
I came on bicycle because there's no public transport,
said supermarket worker Jose Marcano, 32, in the central city of Valencia We are watching the technology being used as a weapon of political persecution,
said Luis Serrano, coordinator of the rights group RedesAyuda These poll watchers played a key and fundamental role on the July 28 elections,
José Rafael Rolón Cedeño told The Washington Post We’re opening a new page in the app for all the Venezuelan population, so they can confidentially give me all the information about the delinquents who have threatened the people — attacked the people — so we can go after them and bring them to prompt justice,
We don’t have that radar,
said Gonzalo Himiob, the group’s director They’ve arrested poll watchers for being in protests and organizing protests,
We have serious concerns about the reports of casualties, violence and arrests, including the arrest warrants that Maduro and his representatives issued today for opposition leaders,
The electoral authority’s failure to announce disaggregated results by polling station constitutes a serious breach of electoral principles,
I ask Venezuelans to continue in peace, demanding that the result be respected and the tally sheets be published, ... This victory, which belongs to all of us, will unite us and reconcile us as a nation.”
They should have been provided immediately, as in any democratic electoral process,
There’s relative clarity that the only way that there can actually be a transition is one in which you negotiate with the military,
said Andrei Serbin Pont, president of the Buenos Aires-based research group CRIES, who closely monitors Venezuela’s security forces Especially among lower ranking officers and troops, living conditions are difficult — as they are for their family members,
Harold Trinkunas, a senior scholar at Stanford University in California, said by email It’s something truly absurd, it’s something completely improbable,
scoffed Vladimir Padrino López, who has commanded the nation’s military for nearly a decade With this partial, unverifiable result, the CNE has proceeded to declare Nicolás Maduro the winner of the election. In a democracy, election results must be complete and independently verifiable in order to be recognised."
Joseph Borrell Fontelles, European Union foreign policy chief, said in a statement on Tuesday