Peru recognizes Gonzalez as Venezuela's president-elect - 2024-08-01 08:47:32

CARACAS (VENEZUELA), 07/30/2024.- Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado (2-l) and Venezuelan presidential candidate Edmundo González Urrutia (r) participate in a support rally this Tuesday, in Caracas (Venezuela). Thousands of Venezuelans have gathered this Tuesday in Caracas, in an event called by the majority opposition, to reject for the second consecutive day what they consider to be fraud in the official results of the National Electoral Council (CNE), which the day before proclaimed Nicolás Maduro as re-elected president with 51.2% of the votes. EFE/ Henry Chirinos

The government of Peru recognized the opponent Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia as president-elect of Venezuela in the elections last Sunday, said the foreign minister on Tuesday Javier Gonzalez-Olaechea.

“This position is shared by many countries, governments and international organisations”the Peruvian Foreign Minister assured the state channel TV Peru.

When asked how they view the current president, Nicolas Maduroproclaimed the winner by the National Electoral Council (CNE)said that, “after the fraud committed” in Sunday’s elections, Peru considers him “as a person who wishes to perpetuate himself in power through a dictatorship.”

The foreign minister explained that he sent “a message to the telephone” of opposition leader María Corina Machado, expressing his solidarity with her and with González Urrutia.

The CNE announced that Maduro won by just over 704,114 votes over González Urrutia, the candidate of the majority opposition coalition, when 20% of the votes were still pending, which translates into 2,394,268 votes, the fate of which is unknown and which could change the final results.

The main opposition coalition, the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), claimed that González Urrutia won the presidency by a wide margin and created a website where it uploaded 73% of the electoral records to reinforce its claim. EFE