Brazilian president wants proof election results are the result of regular voting
The Brazilian president said on Tuesday that new presidential elections could be held in Venezuela, after the neighboring country entered a political crisis and there was widespread distrust in President Nicolas Maduro’s victory.
The newspaper reported that Lula da Silva raised this hypothesis during a Brazilian government meeting on August 8. Folha de São Paulo.
According to sources present at the government meeting, the Brazilian president said that the election results could not be accepted without clear evidence that everything went smoothly.
Lula da Silva said that if this does not happen, the options available to Nicolas Maduro are to call new elections or to be called dictator forever.
The Brazilian head of state has the support of the presidents of Mexico and Colombia, Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Gustavo Petro, respectively, who continue to communicate with each other to find the best solution. What they have in common is that they are leftists, which makes it easier to communicate with Caracas, unlike countries like Argentina, where Javier Milei is in power and has completely distanced himself from the dialogue.
Nicolás Maduro was declared the winner of the election and re-election as Venezuela’s president on July 28, but the outcome remains widely questioned, especially by the opposition, but also by regional leaders.
A group of countries, including Brazil, are pressuring the Venezuelan authorities to publish the minutes proving the official results, but this has not yet happened.
