The President of Chile, Gabriel Boric, He stated on Thursday that the ruling of the Supreme Court of Justice of Venezuela (TSJ), which confirmed the victory of the Venezuelan president, Nicolas Maduro, ‘is done with consolidating the fraud’ in the July 28 elections.
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‘Today, the TSJ of Venezuela concludes the consolidation of the fraud. The Maduro regime naturally welcomes his punishment with enthusiasm, which will be marked by shame. There is no doubt that we are dealing with a dictatorship that falsifies electionsoppresses those who think differently and is indifferent to the largest exile in the world comparable only to that of Syria as a result of a war,” Boric noted via the social network X.
Venezuela’s Supreme Court on Thursday confirmed the official results of the July 28 election, which won the victory of Nicolás Maduro, who has been accused of fraud inside and outside the country.
‘I have looked into the eyes of thousands of Venezuelans crying out for democracy their homeland and today they receive another blow on the door. Chile does not recognize this false self-proclaimed triumph of Maduro and his cronies. Certainly because of our position, we will receive insults (as usual) from their authorities. They do not know that, as Huidobro said: ‘If it does not give life, it kills’, and they have killed the word democracy”, he stressed.
Boric stressed that ‘lVenezuela’s dictatorship is not left-wing. A deeply democratic continental left that respects human rights, regardless of the skin color of the person who violates them, is possible and necessary. A transformative progressivism that improves the living conditions of its people by building community instead of individualism, instead of polarization. We are walking there in Chile.’
The validation of this result was widely questioned by the Venezuelan opposition, especially by the standard-bearer of the main opposition coalition Edmundo González Urrutia, who pointed out that “no verdict will replace popular sovereignty.”
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Since the elections of July 28 last year in Venezuela Boric has stressed the need to know all election databoth from independent international observers and from the opposition, which the National Electoral Council has not yet made public in a disaggregated manner.
The Chavista leader obtained 51.20% of the votes (5,150,092 support points), compared to 44.2% of the votes of the Gonzalez Urrutia (4,445,978 votes), according to the CNE results.
From January 10, the date the new mandate begins, Maduro will take up his third term of office for a six-year term at the head of the country, which has been governed by Chavismo for 25 years.
Since taking power in March 2022, Boric has been one of the region’s loudest voices against President Maduro, a stance that has set him apart from other progressive leaders such as Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, or Colombia’s. Gustavo Petro.
Source: El heraldo
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