Hundreds of Venezuelans demonstrated peacefully this Saturday in London and other cities in the UK to demand freedom for his native country and to denounce, with the records in hand, the “fraud” of the recent presidential elections of July 28.
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As confirmed to EFE the delegation of the ConVzla Command in the United Kingdom, between 450 and 600 Venezuelans residing in the British capital They gathered outside the Venezuelan Embassy in the British capital, located in the Chelsea neighborhood, chanting “we want freedom for Venezuela and we want it now” and “Edmundo President.”
The protesters held up copies of the electoral records presented by the Venezuelan opposition, which gave victory to candidate Edmundo González with 67% of the votes, more than 7.3 million, compared to the Chavista candidate Nicolás Maduro, who obtained 30% and 3.3 million votes, and which contradict the official version.
Likewise, the British faction of the campaign ConVzla sang the Venezuelan anthem ‘Gloria al bravo pueblo’, with verses such as “Let us shout with vigor, death to oppression, faithful compatriots, strength is unity” while carrying signs with Maduro’s face that read “Dictator, Out!”
Venezuelan Mickel Feo, who has lived in the United Kingdom for almost 9 years, where he works in the events industry and in the creation of audiovisual content, told EFE that the main objective of the meeting was to “collect the national sentiment” of those who had to flee their native Venezuela.
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Venezuelans protested peacefully this Saturday in London and other cities in the United Kingdom.
EFE
In his case, he moved to the British country in December 2015, after voting in the first parliamentary elections after the death of the former president. Hugo Chavez and that gave victory to Nicolás Maduro’s party, and now, by participating in these demonstrations he wants to “reach where the Venezuelans there cannot.”
In addition to London, other British cities such as Manchester, Liverpool, Oxford, Bournemouth and Bristol, among others, also called for demonstrations in favour of freedom for Venezuela, encouraged by the worldwide protests encouraged by the Comando Con Vzla and the opposition members María Corina Machado and Edmundo González.
The United Kingdom, along with twenty other countries and the European Union, requested this Friday “the immediate publication of all the original minutes” and the “impartial and independent” verification of the results of the July 28 elections in Venezuela, in which the National Electoral Council declared Nicolás Maduro the winner.
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