Carlos Guzman | CDMX Correspondent.- While insisting that he will continue to wait until the final results are released before offering a position, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador asked everyone to remain calm following the results of the election in Venezuela.
He said that all types of violence are condemnable, and that the election should be clean if necessary and that the votes should be counted.
He also criticized former presidents Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderón for trying to come to that nation as “electoral observers” when in 2006 he refused to carry out a full recount of the vote, which he has accused of fraud.
“I am not surprised that Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderón came as observers when they did not want to recount the votes in the 2006 elections, but now they are democratic observers, now they are democrats, because that is the hypocrisy in the conservative bloc.”
The president then asked other countries and international media to “stop inciting” Venezuelans with false information seeking to trigger violence.
“We must all help to ensure that there is no violence in Venezuela,” he added.
Finally, he reiterated the call for peaceful protests, because “we do not want our brother Venezuelan people to continue to confront each other and wait for the result,” referring to the fact that “there is already a ruling from the electoral authority with 80% of the polling stations counted, there is a result, however, these results need to be made known, so that it is not just the general figure and that progress is made in the counting, that is what we are proposing and not to disqualify in one sense or another.”
