Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said on Monday that will recognize the victory of the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, if the National Electoral Council (CNE) of Venezuela confirms the trend after Sunday’s elections, although he asked to wait for the recount.
“We will wait for the results, once the recount has been carried out, to see what the legal process is and then we will make a statement. If the electoral authority confirms this trend, we will recognize the government elected by the people of Venezuela,” López Obrador said at his morning press conference.
The Mexican ruler assured that They cannot ignore any CNE resultswhich announced overnight that Maduro won with 51.2% of the votes compared to 44.2% for Edmundo González Urrutia of the opposition Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD) of Venezuela.
“This is the result with 80% of the polling stations, so we have to wait for 100% and we will be guided by this,” warned López Obrador, showing a graph with the data from the Venezuelan electoral body, questioned by the opposition.
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The statements of the President of Mexico contrast with those of other Latin American left-wing governments, such as Chile, Colombia and Guatemala, which have called for transparency in the count, while Brazil asked to wait.
So far, China, Russia, Iran, Nicaragua and Cuba have recognized Maduro’s victory, while Uruguay, Argentina, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and the Dominican Republic They called for an urgent meeting of the Organization of American States (OAS).
“We are going to wait for the votes to be counted. We have the information that the electoral body of Venezuela is giving the victory to President Maduro. This is what we know. It is the electoral body, the National Electoral Council. First comes the information,” López Obrador insisted.
The Mexican president also criticized the large deployment on social media, saying that “there you can see who is who because the media, the media companies, well, have their sympathy.”
On Sunday, Mexican Foreign Minister Alicia Bárcena only wrote on X that Mexico was “attentive to the results of the elections in Venezuela with love and affection.”
The secretary general of the ruling National Regeneration Movement (Morena), Citlalli Hernández, stated on her social networks that “in a furious manner” the “continental right wing was activated in an organized way on social networks” even without knowing the official results of Venezuela.
Lopez Obrador congratulated the people of Venezuela Because there was no violence in the election yesterday, considering that things started to heat up when the voting centers closed.
“Given the situation, which was very tense, I saw people in the streets and not violent confrontations. In addition, I was attentive and, if there had been violence from the beginning or if it had been the hallmark of the election, it would have been the news all day, but that was not the news,” he said.
With information from EFE
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