The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Joseph Borrellagain demanded the publication of the electoral records of Venezuela and warned that, in case Nicolas Maduro insists on saying that he won without being able to verify it, this country “could enter a serious crisis.”
“If Maduro insists on saying that he has won and does not want to understand that, for the international community, without verification there is no acceptance of results, Venezuela could enter into a serious crisis. We are all trying to prevent this from happening.”Borrell said on Monday.
The head of European diplomacy appeared before the media at the Menendez Pelayo International University of Santanderwhere he is leading the course this week ‘Where are you going Europe?’.
Borrell sees it as “clear” that Maduro “refuses to show the minutes”. “He should have done so already, he has had time”, he added, and insisted that “if there is no verification of the results, the results cannot be accepted”.
«I know that Maduro has spoken very kind words to me, it is not the first time, but I have to insist on the same thing: If the results cannot be verified, they cannot be accepted and, for the moment, they are not verifiable. Well, better said, they are verifiable through the information provided by the opposition»he said.
Following the last presidential elections on July 28, the National Electoral Council (CNE) gave victory to the current president, Nicolas Madurowith 51.95% of the votes, compared to 43.18% of the votes obtained by the majority opposition candidate, Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia.
But the opposition does not recognise the results and published a copy of 81% of the minutes it collected during the election day that would give it the victory.
Borrell also described Maduro’s appeal to the Supreme Court of Venezuela to “defend him” as “the height of sarcasm.” “I don’t know what the Supreme Court will issue as a ruling because its function is not to count the election results,” he said.
The High Representative called for a wait-and-see approach in the coming days, although he added that there are more than 2,000 people detained and “the repression is intensifying,” and he trusts that the international community will maintain its demand for verification of the results. EFE (I)
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