He Government of Venezuela warned that it will review its relations with the G7 countries, after they expressed their support for the opposition Edmundo González Urrutiawho declares “president-elect“.
The G7 foreign ministers, made up of United States, Canada, Italy, Germany, United Kingdom, Japan y Franceconsidered in a joint statement González Urrutia as the winner of the elections of July 28, in which the autocrat Nicolas Maduro was proclaimed re-elected for a third term, without detailed scrutiny having been presented.
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“Venezuela categorically rejects the absurd statement about the Venezuelan electoral and political process (…). They try, from the colonialist and imperialist complex, prepare the ground to ignore the institutions and decisions of the Venezuelan people“The Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
The Caribbean country “will proceed to comprehensively review its relations with each of the governments that make up this group, because respect for the national sovereignty is not negotiable”, added the document.
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“The Venezuelan people made a clear decision at the polls: they voted for democratic change and supported Edmundo gonzález Urrutia by a notable majority, according to publicly available electoral records,” the G7 foreign ministers said after a two-day meeting in Fiuggi, nearly Roma.
Venezuela responded that the group is trying to recreate a “Guaidó 2.0″, in reference to Juan Guaidó, the Venezuelan opposition leader who proclaimed himself “interim president” in 2019, recognized by fifty countries after report fraud in Maduro’s first re-election.
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two of the countries of the G7, United States and Italia, They had previously recognized González Urrutia as “president-elect”.
the electoral authority did not reveal details of the vote. The opposition,led by María Corina Machado, protagonist of the campaign and in hiding,published in a website copies more than 80% of the electoral recordswith which he claims a victory.