It took Lula da Silva a month to realize the trick and not recognize Maduro as the winner

2024-08-30 17:16:24

If there is any consensus in the region, it is that the July 28 elections in Venezuela have been marred by many irregularities, including the comical announcement. Nicolas Maduro as the winner by the electoral commission without showing the electoral records.

What follows are many local efforts to force the government and the electoral bodies to show evidence of the results that should be made public on the night of July 28.

Countries such as Mexico, Colombia and Brazil refused to sign the resolution proposed at the meeting of the Permanent Council Organization of American States (OAS) held a few days after the election day in which it required the Venezuelan authorities to publicly disclose the electoral records that had already been declared by Maria Corina Machado and all the opponents and it shows the great victory of the candidate Edmundo González Urrutia.

A day later the three countries issued a statement asking for exactly the same thing until Mexico took a step aside, leaving Gustavo Petro and Lula da Silva alone in their efforts to give the dictator time. more. Between them, they continue with empty statements interpreted by the international community as a way to give the president more time.

Now, a month after the election day, the Brazilian president said during an interview with Brazilian radio that he did not “question” the Venezuelan Supreme Court, which confirmed last week of Maduro’s fraud, but he explained that, in his opinion, this institution is not adequate to resolve the dispute: “President Maduro did not listen to the National Electoral Commission (CNE) and went directly to the Supreme Court. It should go through the Commission, which was created for that purpose .”

In addition, he pointed out that there is “no evidence” of a Maduro victory, but he explained that he did not recognize González Urrutia as the winner either. For him, the “important” solution is to call new elections, something rejected by almost all sectors.