Posted on 07/31/2024 9:08:46 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
María Corina Machado says president should understand he lost vote, amid international doubts over victory claim
The opposition leader battling to bring the curtain down on Nicolás Maduro’s authoritarian regime has urged the Venezuelan strongman to accept that his exit from power is inevitable. The call came as thousands of protesters hit the streets to repudiate Maduro’s disputed claim to have won a third term in power.
Venezuela’s incumbent president was officially proclaimed the victor of Sunday’s election by the government-controlled electoral authority on Monday morning.
Maduro called his supposed victory “irreversible” despite widespread international doubts over the veracity of his claim to have beaten the opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia and his campaigning partner, the conservative activist María Corina Machado.
Later on Monday, González and Machado said they could prove their victory after obtaining 73.2% of the voting tallies from polling stations – the official records that show the number of votes cast by the time each polling station closes.
Speaking to the Guardian, Machado urged the president to come to terms with the end of his 11-year rule, during which Venezuela fell into a devastating economic and humanitarian crisis that has forced millions to flee abroad.
“He should understand that he was defeated,” she said of Maduro, who was democratically elected after the 2013 death of his mentor, President Hugo Chávez, but has since taken Venezuela in an increasingly repressive and anti-democratic direction.
Machado rejected Maduro’s earlier claim that his re-election was “irreversible”. “I would say his departure is irreversible,” she said.
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Be very afraid.
You are next.
Okay, but what happens next. There is no candidate who was elected by a free democratic process.
Russia will not allow Maduro to fail.
If that is the standard for what should have been, Trump is president.
I think we should just leave Maduro in then.
He stole it fair-and-square.
Blinken is suddenly an “election denier”.
Lol.
What does Kamalamadingdong have to say about this? 🤔
Once the people will not back down, it’s inevitable. It’s only a question of how many people die before it happens.
This is one of the attractions of AI to run government for the elites. People get tired, but AI does not.
not a muduro fan but narrative is likely to inspire TDS crowd.
It would be utter hypocrisy for the US to decry Maduro winning by the same process that Biden won by.
Democrats here are studying how Maduro pulled it off. Picking up pointers to refine their own November steal.
Harris to get 100 million ‘votes’? Stay tuned.
The question is are there enough people in Venezuela willing to give up their life to get Maduro out of power.
A man with a AK47 can kill a lot of people. But a mob of 100 people can easily kill him.
Will the army back the people or the commies.
Which assures it will happen.
Does anyone in Venezuela, except the gangsters and government enforces, have guns?
We’ve heard this story many times, in many countries, yet the end results predicted rarely come to pass.
It would be nice to see Venezuela get rid of their tyranny, but it doesn’t seem inevitable at this point, and the commies are just biding their time until the peasants stop revolting.
If they were armed, they may have a chance if enough of them want their freedom bad enough to risk their lives, but they are not armed and have little recourse.
Hoping for the best.
Dems, here, already know how Maduro has stolen these elections.
VZ was ground zero for the Dominion machine trial run/s.
They (dems) are only studying how this latest steal attempt goes down.
They’ll try this again in November here in the US.
Already some of the police officers and army are joining the publics protest
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