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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 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,
I throw myself before justice,
he said to reporters outside the Supreme Court’s headquarters in Caracas, The serious doubts that have arisen around the Venezuelan electoral process can lead its people to a deep violent polarization with serious consequences of permanent division,
Colombian President Gustavo Petro wrote on social media platform X I invite the Venezuelan government to allow the elections to end in peace, allowing a transparent vote count, with the counting of votes, and with the supervision of all the political forces of its country and professional international supervision,
What do these people have in their head? In the heart?"
Maduro asked in a televised address Monday night in which he broadcast images of some of the attacks The fraud carried out and perpetrated by the dictator Nicolás Maduro is nothing less than a Pyrrhic victory,
Milei said in a video posted on TikTok, according to a translation by The Wall Street Journal The election took place in an environment of restricted freedoms for political actors, civil society organizations, and the media,
You couldn’t stand a round against me,
Maduro has responded to Milei's statements by insulting him ... the Buenos Aires Herald reported And we ask electoral representatives to immediately share all information with the opposition and independent observers,
We Venezuelans want peace and respect for the popular will,
Gonzalez said on Tuesday as thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets of the capital Caracas and other parts of the country to protest the results The opposition must show it has the tallies and send them to other countries as proof,
he told the Reuters news agency In the limited number of polling centers they visited, Carter Center observer teams noted the desire of the Venezuelan people to participate in a democratic election process, as demonstrated through their active participation as polling staff, party witnesses, and citizen observers,
The announced results do not seem to reflect the real will of the Venezuelan people,
Tajani told lawmakers in the Italian lower house of parliament On the Maduro regime, I have always maintained a firm condemnation since I have held office in European institutions,
said Antonio Tajani, the leader of the centre-right Forza Italia party and a former president of the European Union parliament We call for maximum restraint and for a peaceful, democratic and Venezuelan-led solution,
There is still a small chance" that the government would consent to negotiations to hash out a transition of power
said Carmen Beatriz Fernandez, of Caracas analyst firm Datastrategia Our urgency now is for countries of the world to turn their gaze towards Venezuela and use the institutions they have to generate pressure so that Nicolas Maduro becomes more naked, more exposed in this fraud that he is shamefully displaying,
That is an additional reason for not recognizing the results until they will be fully and independently verified,
he told reporters during a visit to Vietnam