Miami. The secretary general of the Organization of American States on Tuesday urged Nicolás Maduro to acknowledge his defeat in Venezuela’s presidential election, adding to the questioning of the election results that declared the current president the winner and which were rejected by several countries.
“It is imperative to know about Maduro’s acceptance of the minutes held by the opposition and consequently accept his electoral defeat,” said Luis Almagro’s office in its first statement on Sunday’s electoral process in Venezuela.
“Failure to do so would require new elections,” but this time with international observers from the European Union and the OAS and new electoral authorities “to reduce the margin of institutional irregularity that plagued this process,” the general secretariat of the continental organization indicated in a press release.
The OAS condemnation comes two days after the elections and after the National Electoral Council (CNE) of Venezuela officially proclaimed Maduro president on Monday, in his second re-election, after releasing results on Sunday night that gave the president the electoral victory with 51% of the votes against 44% for the opposition candidate Edmundo González.
Several countries in the region, including Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Peru, the Dominican Republic, Panama and Uruguay, criticized the lack of transparency in the electoral process that proclaimed Maduro president, which angered the Venezuelan government, which ordered all its diplomatic personnel in those countries to return and asked those nations to do the same with their personnel in Venezuela.
The Venezuelan opposition has declared that it does not recognize the electoral authority’s announcement of Maduro’s victory and has documents and records proving that González is the president-elect.
For some experts, it is vital that the opposition show these records to give credibility to their claims.
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