Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Edmundo González Urrutia said on Monday that he has the records that prove his “categorical and mathematically irreversible victory.”
The statement contrasts with what was reported by the National Electoral Council (CNE), which announced at midnight on Sunday that the president Nicolas Maduro had won with 51.2% of the votes, compared to 44.2% for the opposition candidate.
“We have in our hands the minutes that demonstrate our categorical and mathematically irreversible victory,” said González Urrutia in a press conference with the opposition leader. Maria Corina Machado.
Machado pointed out that the opposition bloc has 73.20% of the minutes in its possession until Monday afternoon. With them, he says, they are certain that they defeated the current president.
“With the minutes that we are missing, Even if the CNE gave 100% of the votes to Maduro, what we already have is not enough.”The difference was so big, so big, overwhelming, in all the states of Venezuela, in all the strata, in all the sectors, we won,” said Machado.
He also indicated that Gonzalez Urrutia had 6.27 million votes, compared to 2.75 million of the president Ripe.
He also announced that he would be publishing all the minutes on a portal where the results of each voting table can be verified.
“And as we speak here, there are several global leaders who are already consulting this website. The world is already seeing this evidence of Venezuela’s victory. The world’s leaders are already seeing the truth of what happened here,” Machado said.
The opposition leader called for calm among González’s supporters who have taken to the streets to protest against the results announced by the CNE, the body that on Monday ratified the victory of the candidate of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela.
Machado called on his followers to meet on tuesday before noon to demonstrate peacefully.
Maduro lashes out at the opposition
Hours earlier, the president of the CNE, Elvis Amoroso, officially declared Maduro’s victory. At the event, the president disqualified the opposition, which he accused of organizing destabilization in the streets.
“This is not the first time we have faced what we are facing today.”A coup d’état is being attempted in Venezuela, once again. It is fascist and counterrevolutionary in nature,” said Maduro, pointing out that there are “first steps” to destabilize the country.
Videos circulated on social media showing protesters shouting slogans against Maduro, while They closed avenues and burned tires in popular sectors which had traditionally been electoral bastions of the ruling party.
In one of the videos, a group of people can be seen knocking down a statue of the former president. Hugo Chavez in the city of Coro, capital of the state of Falcón, in northwestern Venezuela, journalist Irene Revilla confirmed to BBC Mundo.
Protesters also occupied the streets in the center of the Venezuelan capital, in the vicinity of the seats of public authorities such as the Miraflores government palace and the National Assembly.
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