This Wednesday marks one month since the controversial victory of Nicolas Maduro in the presidential elections in VenezuelaA triumph questioned by a large part of the international community, which generated a wave of protests around the world due to the alleged existence of fraud.
THE Venezuelan opponents are not giving a break to the demonstrations and today they are returning to the streets of Caracas against him court decision which validated the re-election of the Venezuelan president, at the same time as the chavistas they are mobilizing for celebrate victory of this president proclaimed by the National Electoral Council (CNE), after ensuring that he had won with just over half the vote.
The main opposition coalition, the United Democratic Platform (PUD)called on his supporters to mobilize one month after the elections in which, he insists, his candidate, Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutiaobtained the majority of votes.
“We Venezuelans find ourselves on the streets again. August 28“As a family, with your children, with your grandchildren and with your criminal record in hand, we ratify that the record kills the sentence,” said the POUD on August 24, when he announced the call for the demonstration.
“We Venezuelans find ourselves once again in the streets. This August 28, with your family, with your children, with your grandchildren and with your document in hand, we ratify that the law kills the penalty,” the PUD said on August 24, when it announced the call for the demonstration.
This Wednesday, August 28, one month after our wonderful VICTORIA: Everyone to the new street!
The smart, resilient, irreverent and conscious street.
See you at 11:00 a.m. in Caracas, the rest of the country and also in several cities around the world.
We will not rest; go… pic.twitter.com/Dok4hNWucS– María Corina Machado (@MariaCorinaYA) August 26, 2024
The platform invited Venezuelans to print the minutes corresponding to their voting center from a web page where claims to have published “83.5%” of these articles obtainedAccording to the opposition, through witnesses and members of the polling stations on election day, documents that the ruling party describes as “false”.
Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado is convinced that peaceful protests and international pressure still have the potential to topple Maduro, she proclaimed Tuesday night. months and the opposition’s path to regaining power appears narrow.
Machado assured in an interview with Reuters that the opposition has a “a solid strategy” to achieve victory. She did not give details, but added that she and former opposition candidate Edmundo González were united.
“It is the coordination between internal and external forces that will allow change,” Machado, who participated in the protests but has been in hiding since the vote, said via video call. “What is left for Maduro today? A very small group of high-ranking military officers, control of the (Supreme Court) magistrates and weapons … sows fear.”
The interview took place on the same day that Edmundo González ignored, for the second time, a summons to the attorney general’s office to testify on the opposition website.
Chavismo also takes to the streets
Meanwhile, Chavismo is today responding to the call of the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) to celebrate Maduro’s re-election in the streets.
The first vice-president of training, Diosdado Hair – appointed Minister of the Interior and Justice on Tuesday – explained that the march was for celebrate Maduro’s “victory”as well as to prepare for what is to come.
On Thursday, the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) – chaired by Chavista Caryslia Rodríguez – validated the results announced by the CNE, which grant Maduro a third consecutive term, until 2031.
The TSJ assumed the “validation” of the results at the request of Maduro, who filed an appeal that was never known and for which the 10 former candidates were summoned, although González Urrutia refused to attend, considering that this verification was not the responsibility of the Supreme Court but of the CNE, which has not yet published the disaggregated data, although it is scheduled in the calendar.
Some Western countries, almost all democracies in the Americas, and international organizations such as a United Nations panel of experts have called for the publication of the full election count, even though some denounce obvious fraud on the part of Chavismo.
The protests have provoked at least 27 dead and 2,400 detainedBoth the opposition and the ruling party have called on their supporters to demonstrate on Wednesday, a month after the vote.
