CARACAS, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Monday rejected Washington’s interventionist stance in the July 28 presidential election in his country.
“I fully and absolutely reject the United States government’s attempt to become the electoral authority in Venezuela or anywhere else in the world,” Maduro said in statements broadcast on Venezuelan state television.
A few hours earlier, on Thursday, US President Joe Biden said he was in favor of holding new elections in Venezuela. However, later, other White House spokesmen explained that the US government does not support this proposal and that Biden was mistaken in his previous statement.
“Who is in charge in the United States? Who is in charge of foreign policy? Why does the president say something and then the White House and his own Foreign Ministry deny it?” Maduro asked, criticizing Washington’s contradiction regarding Venezuelan policy.
“They have to review the tremendous internal problem they have,” and “Venezuela has a Constitution, it has an electoral schedule, it has institutions, the public powers of Venezuela have the final say,” the president stressed.
Currently, the Venezuelan opposition coalition, the United States, the European Union and other factors have denounced alleged irregularities in the elections of July 28 in Venezuela; Caracas, for its part, considers that these accusations are nothing more than an attempted coup d’état directed from Washington.
