Three months after the presidential elections, in Venezuela no one gives an inch in their demands, with an opposition that denounced fraud in the result that favored Nicholas Ripeand a chavismo that defends that victorywhile seeing as a blow State the criticism, inside and outside the country, of the announced re-election.
Although he Advice National Electoral (CNE) -controlled by rectors close to the Government- proclaimed the winner Ripe on July 28, has still not published an endorsement of that result, despite incessant requests from transparency what the international community has done, especially the many countries that do not recognize the victory chavista.
On the other hand, the main coalition opposition -Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD)- insists that his candidate, Edmund González Urrutia – exiled in Spain since September 8 – won the Presidency by a wide margin, and has been in charge of disseminating “83.5% of the electoral records” that would demonstrate that outcome, despite the fact that the ruling party calls them “false.” “.
With this scenario, there are two men preparing to swear as boss of State on January 10, 2025 – the date indicated by the Constitution to begin the presidential six-year term – but only one is in the country supported by all the institutions of the Stateespecially the Armed Forces, and hopes to continue in the position he has held since 2013.
“Everyone knows it”
To commemorate the three months, the leader opposition Maria Corina Machado, the main supporter of González Urrutia, released a documentary that reviews the day of the voting and reiterates the complaint of fraudunder the slogan that “the fight is until the end”, as he always says, which aims to get the chavismo of power, which he came to democratically in 1999.
Machado, whose whereabouts he keeps secret due to threats of jail by the Executive, assures that “everyone knows” that Ripe lost the elections and based on that “certainty” – he continues – instances, among others, the Parliament European Parliament or, just today, the Chamber of Panama, approve resolutions in which they recognize González Urrutia as president-elect of Venezuela.
“We did it, we did it together, let’s keep it in mind every day, while we continue fighting to collect our victory. Everyone knows: that day he won Edmund González and won Venezuela“wrote the former deputy on social network X, on the same platform as other leaders of the PUD They demonstrated, without any street activity.
Also today the prime minister of ItalyGiorgia Meloni, received González Urrutia in Rome, to whom she reiterated Italian support “for the efforts to facilitate the transition democratic” in Venezuela.
With this kind of support, almost all of it symbolic, the PUD has maintained its claim, as well as the demand of the release of nearly 2,000 people – including 68 minors – who remain in prison, after having been detained in the post-election context, some in the midst of protests against the “fraud“and others in police and military operations.
“Impunity is over”
In a more celebratory tone, the chavismo organized events in Caracas and other cities to commemorate “the three months of the victory of the peace“, according to information broadcast by the state channel Venezolana de Televisión (VTV), which describes Ripe as the winner against the “coup plans” of the opposition and “imperialism.”
The president himself recalled July 28 as the day of a “strong triumph popular” that he gave him, according to the bulletin of the CNE51.95% of the votes to remain in power.
“The battle for peace we are winning it, it will be a new one victory against the coup and fascism,” expressed on Telegram the boss of Statewho participated last week in the summit of the BRICS group of emerging economies, in Russia, from where he returned without having achieved the admission of his country to the bloc.
Likewise, the Minister of the Interior, Diosdado Hairled an event in Caracas in which he stressed that “impunity is over,” so whoever “attacks the revolution” will have “justice behind him.”
“They are not going to govern again, neither by good nor by bad,” said the number two of the chavismo.
