María Corina Machado, Venezuela’s opposition leader and presidential candidate chosen in a primary that the regime barred from running, has disappeared after the courts opened a criminal investigation against her and Edmundo González Urrutia, the official candidate who won the July 28 election, according to a parallel vote count. He gave an interview from an undisclosed location. The pays He believes that “the best option for Maduro is to accept a ‘negotiated transition.'”
“The world knows we won,” says Maria Corina. “Our records are available to anyone who wants to analyze them,” she says, emphasizing that the situation in Venezuela today “is not a question of left or right,” but rather “issues of basic human rights” and “freedom.” reverse “Totalitarianism” and “Democratic stability in the face of a regime that undermines the stability not only of Venezuela, but of the region as well.”
To the founder of the Venti party [Vamos] Venezuela, the first priority at this moment is to “stop the repression” and asks the international community to file a “complaint that [a situação] “It’s worth it”: “We’re talking about Maduro who boasts every day that there are more than 2,000 detainees. They’re taking election witnesses from their homes, looking for those who volunteered on election day.”
“Then it is about making Maduro understand that his best option is to accept the terms of a negotiated transition,” regarding the election results, because “popular sovereignty is not negotiable.” “With the regime so weak and we so strong. The farce that this country is polarized is collapsing. The bases of Chavismo are with us, the bases of the armed forces are with us. We have already given them a social defeat, and we needed to confirm it with numbers so that the whole world would know what we already know.”
The figures indicated are those resulting from the parallel count of votes carried out through a network of “Orders” And those, distributed over nearly 30,000 polling stations, were able to obtain more than 24,000 electoral registers that were then analyzed in detail by world-renowned academics. This is the Parallel Vote Tabulation Initiative Altavista (PVT), and according to this analysis, the opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez obtained more than 66% of the votes, while Maduro obtained only 31%.
This system has already been verified by dozens of other world-renowned experts, such as Francis Fukuyama and media outlets such as Washington Post and news agency. Which contradicts the lack of transparency in the results announced by the National Electoral Council, which only submitted its minutes to the Venezuelan Supreme Court after being summoned to do so, without revealing them until now, as many have done. Other countries have already requested (United States, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, in addition to the European Union).
“The minutes we have are official documents from the CNE. Under their rules. We won, and the world knows we won,” Maria Corina continues in the interview. The paysI think this position unites all countries in the world when they say that we must verify the minutes of the meeting impartially. We have them available so that anyone who wants to analyze them, to verify them, can do so. And that is the purpose of our open database.
But for the Supreme Court, it’s as if it doesn’t exist. “Members of the Unitarian Platform [coligação da oposição liderada por Edmundo González] “No electoral materials have been submitted to the court,” Judge Cariclia Rodriguez told reporters and diplomats on Saturday, warning that her decision on who wins will be final.
Asked about the positions of the three moderate left countries trying to reach a negotiated solution with the Maduro regime – Brazil, Colombia and Mexico – the opposition leader said she “realizes that there are countries that have a wiser position.” To maintain a channel of communication with the regime. But he also notes that these three countries “understand the enormous danger that threatens Latin America” if Maduro remains in power “by force”: “This would lead to a migration wave of three or four million people in the short term.”
Asked if she feared the regime would arrest her, the liberal did not reject this scenario: “In Venezuela, anything is possible. I feel that Maduro, in his desperation, has chosen the most dangerous path, where he has barricaded himself and surrounded himself with a high military command. I think it is a big mistake on his part and a big risk for Venezuelans.”
