Edmundo González Urrutia congratulated Luis Abinader for his re-election within the Dominican Republic

Edmund Gonzalez Urrutia and Luis Abinader

The presidential candidate of the most important opposition coalition in Venezuela, Edmundo González Urrutia, congratulated this Monday Luis Abinader, re-elected this Sunday as president of the Dominican Republic for 4 years after a big electoral victory within the first spherical.

“We congratulate the Dominican individuals for his or her nice demonstration of democratic power and President Luis Abinader for his re-election. Latin America must proceed consolidating its democratic methods for the event of our nations,” stated González Urrutia by means of X.

Abinader, of the Trendy Revolutionary Occasion (PRM), obtained 57.16% of the 4.2 million votes counted up to now within the nation, the place 8.1 million voters, 11% of them overseas, had been summoned on Sunday to the polls, in accordance with knowledge from the Central Electoral Board (JCE).

The message of Edmundo González Urrutia

The PRM, which emerged a decade in the past after the division of the social democratic Dominican Revolutionary Occasion, additionally achieved an awesome victory within the legislative elections, the place this formation and its twenty allied events are going to win the bulk within the Senate and the Home of Representatives. Deputies, along with the nice victory he obtained within the municipal elections final February.

The biggest anti-Chavista coalition in Venezuela, the Democratic Unitary Platform, selected González Urrutia as a candidate for the presidential elections on July 28, after the previous liberal deputy María Corina Machado – winner of the opposition primaries – couldn’t register earlier than the Nationwide Electoral Council as a candidate for the Presidency on account of a disqualification that stops him from working for public workplace till 2036.

Luis Abinader (REUTERS/Henry Romero)

“It’s important to go to the top, this isn’t a traditional electoral competitors,” Machado stated this Sunday in an interview with the Spanish newspaper El Mundo in reference to the presidential elections subsequent July.

Through the interview, the chief of the Venezuelan opposition made reference to the aim of dissidence to acquire victory in opposition to Chavismo: “Till the top it’s to rebuild a rustic for our kids and that’s what we’re decided to do. “Day-after-day that passes, we’re rising and they’re falling.”

“Now, I do not suck my thumb, we face a prison system that’s risking all the things. If the votes are counted right here as it’s, we’re going to sweep, there is no such thing as a method that (the Chavistas) can win a victory,” he said.

(With data from EFE)