2024-08-14 03:53:41
The Brazilian president questioned the media coverage given to what happened last Sunday, saying that “it is being treated as if it were a third world war,” adding that the situation in that country “is nothing serious, nothing scary.”
Brazilian President Lula da Silva urged the Venezuelan government to make the election records transparent developed this Sunday, although he made it clear that it was a “normal and calm process.”
The president gave an interview to a radio station linked to TV Globo, where He said that “it is normal that there is a fight” after the election results were knownwhich is why he argued that the National Electoral Council of Venezuela (CNE) “should present the minutes.”
Lula said that It was “a normal, calm process” and that if the results announced by the CNE, which declared Nicolás Maduro the winner, are ratified, “we will all have the obligation to recognize it.”
He also made it clear that “people who disagree have the right to express themselves and prove why they disagree, just as the Government has the right to prove that it is right.”
The Brazilian president questioned the media coverage given to what happened last Sunday, pointing out that “it treats this as if it were a third world war.” He added that the situation in the country “is nothing serious, nothing scary.”
Lula da Silva’s position was reiterated in a joint statement with the White House, after talks with Joe Biden, which states that both leaders “agreed on the need for Venezuelan electoral authorities to immediately publish complete, transparent and detailed data on voting at polling stations.”
Along these lines, Biden and Lula “stressed that they shared the perspective that the result of the Venezuelan elections represents a critical moment for democracy in the hemisphere, and they pledged to continue to coordinate closely on the issue.”