Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, who’s looking for re-election for a 3rd time period till 2031, voted on Sunday in Caracas, the place he assured that he would respect the official outcomes printed by the Nationwide Electoral Council and referred to as on his social gathering and the opposite candidates to do the identical.
“I’ll acknowledge the electoral referee’s official bulletins and I’ll be certain that they’re revered, the electoral referee’s phrase is holy,” Maduro mentioned early Sunday morning after voting within the Venezuelan capital.
“I name on the ten presidential candidates and 38 events to respect, to demand respect and to publicly declare that they’ll respect the consequence,” he added.
The Venezuelan head of state referred to as for “good to triumph” in an electoral course of that, in his opinion, has developed “in peace.”
“I mentioned I’d arrive in peace and in peace it arrived (the election). If there’s something to protect and defend, it’s peace, concord, the coexistence of Venezuelans,” Maduro advised the press, wearing a jacket with the colours of the Venezuelan flag, after voting. He was accompanied by his spouse and chief of the governing social gathering, Cilia Flores.
As in latest days, he insisted that the electoral course of will serve to determine between “those that hate and need revenge and would love violence and those that love and need Venezuela.”
Maduro demanded that the worldwide group “respect” the outcomes of this Sunday’s elections. “We aren’t going to become involved in that and no person ought to become involved on this (…) no person goes to steer Venezuela into chaos,” he mentioned.
“Venezuela will determine with out anybody interfering in our determination,” he mentioned.
He confused that no candidate suffered bodily assaults in the course of the election marketing campaign.
“There was not one electoral incident, they didn’t even slap a candidate (…) Is that the case in Latin America? No,” he mentioned, recalling the homicide of candidates for elected workplace in different nations within the area.
“The one candidate being persecuted known as Nicolás Maduro Moros, persecuted internationally by the powers of the world, by Goliath. He was banned on social media, we have been breaking the ban,” he mentioned.
The top of state assured that on Monday morning “there can be peace in Venezuela”, highlighting how briskly the voting course of is. There are 10 candidates on the poll and it solely takes one click on on the automated machines to vote.
A polarized election
The greater than 21.3 million Venezuelans eligible to vote should select between the faces on the poll – Maduro’s seems 13 instances – to determine whether or not they wish to revalidate the quarter-century of self-proclaimed socialist governments that Chavez started or take a brand new course with the opposition coalition’s promise of change.
The opposition, which hopes to capitalize on the discontent of many Venezuelans fed up with the social and financial scenario, confronted a number of obstacles in the course of the marketing campaign.
The primary one was the impossibility of former legislator María Corina Machado to register because the unity candidate, after the judicial authorities disqualified her for 15 years. Nonetheless, she turned the driving power behind Edmundo González, who was lastly chosen because the candidate of the primary opposition bloc.
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