Posted on 08/01/2024 6:02:59 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday said that the United States officially recognizes opposition candidate Edmundo González as the real winner of the Venezuelan presidential election, instead of incumbent Nicolas Maduro.
The results of Sunday's presidential election have been in dispute since both candidates claimed victory. But the National Electoral Council declared Maduro the victor on Monday, which gave him a third six-year term. Protests have broken out across the country as a result.
“Given the overwhelming evidence, it is clear to the United States and, most importantly, to the Venezuelan people that Edmundo González Urrutia won the most votes in Venezuela’s July 28 presidential election," Blinken said in a statement >reported by the Associated Press.
The announcement comes as officials from the U.S., Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia pressure Maduro's government to release the vote tally from the election, which Gonzalez and his ally Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado claim would prove that Maduro actually lost.
The officials claimed that releasing the tallies would be the only way to dispel concerns about the legitimacy of the election.
Maduro has asked the country's highest court to conduct an audit of the election, but members of the international community claimed that the court was not an impartial entity, and was too close to Maduro. But the court accepted the request anyways, and has asked Maduro and the other candidates to appear in court on Friday.
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I find this very surprising on the the part of Winkyn’ Blinkyn.
We should welcome Blinken to the “election denier” club.
Based on what? Does the United States government have the Venezuelan returns?
It’s about time.
Hummmmmm! Maybe we’re going to open up a military operation like Ukraine to takeover Venezuela?
Uh huh, appear in court so all of the opposition can be arrested and taken away to parts unknown. I don’t think so.....
Wasn’t there, also, a political steal that just happened in France? Is Marie Le Pen being quiet to non-existent, about this?
Prosecute the USG for election denial (in my court) !
That will teach Maduro to remit the “Biden 10%” in a timely manner.
I’m shocked.
“Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday said that the United States officially recognizes opposition candidate Edmundo González as the real winner of the Venezuelan presidential election, instead of incumbent Nicolas Maduro.”
Wait; doesn’t this make Blinken an Election Denier? Venezuela’s OurDemocracy is at stake!
Yeah—we need disinformation guard-rails on this election denial hate speech.
:-)
Wow. Took them long enough.
well, looks like he’s on a roll. Maybe next He can admit the winner in the U.S. 2020 elections.
Don’t be shocked it is straight up pander. Hispanics are hacked off about that election.
Didn’t KommieToe already congratulate Mad-Uro?
Let’s send Sean Penn there quick.
Nah. Russia got there first.
I think she did but down the memory hole along with the others.
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