Mexico City. In light of the electoral aftermath in Venezuela following the presidential elections, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador called for avoiding violence and promoting a peaceful solution. “There may be peaceful protests, but we do not want confrontation and waiting for the result. There is already a ruling from the electoral authority with 80 percent of the polling stations, but those results need to be made known, not just the general figure, but progress needs to be made in the count” and “not disqualify in one sense or another.”
During his press conference, López Obrador said that if there are doubts, the results should be made known and if necessary, the election should be clean and the votes counted. However, he also spoke out against international interference and respecting the self-determination of peoples, because there can no longer be a world government or a conglomerate of world governments. “Don’t the governments, the other small, medium, or large countries have things to do? Why do they have to be getting involved in the affairs of other countries? Why the interference?”
López Obrador questioned the fact that there are those who assume the right to determine who is good and who is bad, who is a democrat and who is not. “Not every country is independent, sovereign, free.
“We have to wait and hopefully tempers will calm down, but the most important thing is that there is no violence, that lives are not lost, and the other thing is that they stop inciting politics. I am referring to international actors, internationalist experts, etc.” López Obrador asked that the discontent not be vented through violence.
In this context, he criticized the hypocrisy of former presidents Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderón because when Mexico asked for a recount of votes, they did not want to, but now it turns out that they are international observers.
He later said that all the minutes should be reviewed and, when asked specifically if he would recommend a vote by vote, he considered that all the votes should be counted, but that there should be no ignorance a priori, “those who do not really act in a democratic way should not get involved because atrocities are committed in the name of democracy. We must not let ourselves be fooled.”
He condemned the interventionist attitude of the Organization of American States, “The OAS has no business getting involved. That is interventionism, that is why the OAS has no credibility. On what basis does the OAS claim that the other candidate won, where is the evidence?”
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– 2024-08-02 20:08:31
