Friday, August 2, 2024

Venezuela: election fraud acknowledged

US concludes Nicolás Maduro lost Venezuela’s presidential election: ‘Overwhelming evidence’ 


The US has found no evidence that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro received the most votes in last month’s presidential election and the Biden administration will recognize opposition candidate Edmundo González as the winner, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Thursday.

Blinken, 62, ripped the Maduro-controlled National Electoral Council’s (CNE) vote tally and determination that the incumbent prevailed in the July 28 election with 51% of the vote as “deeply flawed” and unrepresentative of the “will of the Venezuelan people,” in a statement released by the State Department. 

“The CNE’s rapid declaration of Nicolás Maduro as the winner of the presidential election came with no supporting evidence,” the secretary of state wrote, noting that the electoral body has yet to furnish “disaggregated data or any of the vote tally sheets, despite repeated calls from Venezuelans and the international community to do so.”



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