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After studying in regards to the controversial election ends in Venezuela, the place the present head of the regime, Nicolás Maduro, was declared the winner with 51.2% of the votes, the reactions of political leaders in Colombia have been instant. Beneath the shadow of fraud, some right-wing politicians described the outcomes as “theft,” whereas some on the far left congratulated the president.
The governor of Antioquia, Andrés Julián Rendón, expressed on his social networks saying: “Colombia should demand a exact depend of the votes, a transparent and truthful view, in any other case it will likely be linked to the dictatorship.”
With this difficult silence of the Colombian Authorities, concerning the electoral fraud that occurred within the elections in Venezuela, I make the next reflections, on today of worldwide discontent and wounds to democracy :
1. Together with that the results of the…
— Andrés Julian (@AndresJRendonC) July 29, 2024
The mayor of Medellín, Federico Gutiérrez, stated on his X account:
“Dictator Maduro blatantly stole the elections in Venezuela 🇻🇪. The obligation of @petogustavo and his officers is to adjust to the regime. They are going to say that they may settle for the selections and that they may acknowledge him as President. They want him in energy to commit the identical fraud in Colombia 🇨🇴 in 2026. Colombia, we’re being warned.”
Dictator Maduro blatantly stole the elections in Venezuela 🇻🇪.
Paper @petrogustavo and its officers are in compliance with the regime.
They are going to say that they may settle for the selections and that they may acknowledge him as President.
They want him in energy to commit the identical fraud in…– Fico Gutiérrez (@FicoGutierrez) July 29, 2024
The senator of the Republic, Esteban Quintero, additionally spoke:
“Gustavo Petro is similar as Nicolás Maduro! Nicolás Maduro you stole America’s freedom. How unhappy and helpless he feels what is going on in Venezuela. Colombia it is a reflection of what may occur to us in 2 years. “I stay strongly against this disastrous authorities.”
Gustavo Petro is similar as Nicolás Maduro!
Nicolás Maduro you stole America’s freedom.How unhappy and helpless he feels what is going on in Venezuela. Colombia it is a reflection of what may occur to us in 2 years. I stay agency in opposition to this disastrous Authorities pic.twitter.com/qIcked4ZFJ
— EstebanQuintero (@estebanquincar) July 29, 2024
Former President Iván Duque referred to as it a fraudulent electoral course of and requested the worldwide group to not acknowledge the outcomes:
“The theft has been accomplished: The tyrant Nicolás Maduro has dedicated electoral fraud to maintain himself in energy, ignoring the large assist of the Venezuelan individuals for the courageous democratic resistance led by @MariaCorinaYA and @EdmundoGU (sic) .
The theft is full: The tyrant Nicolás Maduro has dedicated electoral fraud to maintain himself in energy, ignoring the large assist of the Venezuelan individuals for the courageous democratic resistance led by @MariaCorinaYA y @EdmundoGU
I’m making a robust name to the group…
— Ivan the Duke 🇨🇴 (@IvanDuke) July 29, 2024
The senator of the Democratic Middle get together, María Fernanda Cabal, identified that though it was a deception for the residents of that nation, the regime was additionally starting to say no:
“In the present day is the start of the tip. Democracies on this planet have been stealing from Venezuelans. Maduro will fall identical to the Castros in Cuba, the Ortegas in Nicaragua or the Petros in Colombia (…) Nations shouldn’t settle for a strict end result to maintain out a tyrant persecuted with justice worldwide.”
In the present day is the start of the tip. Democracies on this planet have been stealing from Venezuelans.
Maduro will fall identical to the Castros in Cuba, the Ortegas in Nicaragua or the Petros in Colombia.
Socialism is a manufacturing facility of distress that we don’t enable ourselves to stay established in…
— María Fernanda Cabal (@MariaFdaCabal) July 29, 2024
Former president Álvaro Uribe Vélez condemned the complicated outcomes, calling for the tip of the dictatorship:
When democracy is attacked, and time and again, the one means is to demand the tip of the dictatorship.
— Álvaro Uribe Vélez (@AlvaroUribeVel) July 29, 2024
On the identical time, opposition chief María Corina Machado confirmed that Edmundo González received the elections:
“I would like you to know that this has been so superior and so huge that we’ve received in each part of the nation, in each row of the nation, in each state within the nation.”
Assertion to the nationwide and worldwide media: https://t.co/4K50E0LWif
— María Corina Machado (@MariaCorinaYA) July 29, 2024
For his half, Edmundo González stated that “all the principles have been damaged” within the Venezuelan elections:
“Venezuelans and the entire world know what occurred on election day at the moment (Sunday), all the principles have been damaged right here, to the extent that many of the minutes weren’t but to be delivered. “
The presidential elections in Venezuela have raised consideration not solely in South America however all over the world. From 6:00 a.m. to six:00 p.m., the voting facilities have been open to permit thousands and thousands of Venezuelans to take part in an election that many take into account essential for the nation.
The primary outcomes have been anticipated at 8:00 pm on Sunday, however delays stored Venezuelans in limbo till the CNE lastly confirmed Nicolás Maduro’s victory with 80% of the ballots counted.
