US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has issued an announcement saying that Washington has concluded, based mostly on “overwhelming proof,” that opposition candidate Edmundo González was the winner of the July 28 presidential election in Venezuela.
Venezuelan electoral authorities introduced final Sunday evening that with 80% of the votes counted, the winner was Nicolás Maduro with 51.2% of the votes and since then haven’t supplied a full scrutinywhich raised suspicions of fraud in the United States, which had been cautious till it knew the detailed information for every polling station, which Caracas has not supplied.
“Given the overwhelming proof, it’s clear to the United States, and particularly to the Venezuelan folks, that Edmundo González Urrutia received the majority of votes in Venezuela’s presidential election on July 28,” Blinken mentioned in an announcement.
The United States known as on the events concerned in the Venezuelan disaster to deal with a transition course of to respect the want for an electoral end result and mentioned that he’ll help a course of of “restoring democratic norms” in Venezuela.
At the starting of the week The United States requested to see the minutes by desk in order to decide and has been in contact with Brazil, one thing that crystallized in a name between the US president, Joe Biden, and the Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, to ask for transparency and detailed outcomes from the Maduro authorities.
This Thursday, Blinken has introduced that he accepts the vote introduced by the opposition as legitimateled by María Corina Machado, which represents 80% of the polling stations and exhibits that González Urrutia “acquired the majority of votes by an insurmountable margin.”
Blinken recalled that the data have been “acquired straight from polling stations all through Venezuela” and corroborate exit polls and the conclusions of unbiased observers and fast counts.
“Since Election Day, now we have consulted intensively with companions and allies round the world, and whereas every nation has taken completely different paths to reply, None have concluded that Nicolás Maduro has acquired the majority of votes“, concluded the head of American diplomacy.
Blinken has recalled that the “fast” declaration of the National Electoral Council (CNE) that gave victory to Maduro on Sunday “got here with none proof to help it” and The group “has not printed disaggregated information and no minutes but”regardless of worldwide calls to take action.
The Secretary of State identified that the Carter Center’s commentary mission “has stripped the outcomes introduced by the CNE of all credibility.”
The Venezuelan opposition decided, based mostly on independently obtained data, that Edmundo González obtained almost 70% of the votesin comparison with round 30% for Maduro.
