A group of 27 former Hispanic American heads of state asked the president, Claudia Sheinbaum and their counterparts of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Colombia, Gustavo Petro, that they recognize Edmundo González Urrutia as winner of the last elections in Venezuela.
They demand an end to omission in Mexico, Brazil and Colombia
The former leaders who make up the Democratic Initiative of Spain and the Americas (IDEA) they demanded in a declaration to said Governments to cease their “omissive behaviors“and recognize Gonzalez Urrutia like “the democratically elected president for the Venezuelans.”
This statement is the result of the conclusions and recommendations reached during its IX Presidential Dialogue of the past October 16 and 17 in Miami, Florida.
They claim that Maduro falsely claimed victory
In this annual forum the former heads of state focused on what they considered “electoral fraud“conceived in the presidential elections of the past July 28in which the Venezuelan electoral authorities declared winner for president Nicolas Madurowithout until now having presented the results of disaggregated form.
The Venezuelan opposition majority has rejected the results officials and, under the protection of electoral records that they made public, considers that their candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia (today exiled in Spain), was the winner and is the elected president of Venezuela, as was also highlighted by the former rulers gathered at Miami Dade College (MDC), venue of the event.
Former leaders warn of risk to democracy in the region
This Monday’s statement insist in which Brazil, Mexico and Colombia recognize to Gonzalez Urrutia as president-elect and let this one take possession of office the next January 10since “only in this way will it be achieved that in their respective nations democracy is preserved.”
Otherwise, add the statement, that omission will accuse to these governments of “active collusion with the repressive regime of Venezuela and their crimes against humanity”.
The former Ibero-American leaders also denounce that the Electoral Power that recognized the victory of Ripe “this subjected to dictatorship” of the Venezuelan president, “has disrespected the Constitution and the laws” and has refused to make public the electoral records and its results.
They are convinced that “the dictator Maduro“has been falsely attributed” electoral victory“, something that, if accepted, “will seriously affect the democratic experience in the region”.
Among the signatories appear former presidents Felipe Calderón and Vicente Foxas well as Mario Abdo (Paraguay), Óscar Arias (Costa Rica), José María Aznar (Spain), Nicolás Ardito Barletta (Panama), Rafael Ángel Calderón and Laura Chinchilla (Costa Rica), Alfredo Cristiani (El Salvador), Iván Duque ( Colombia), Federico Franco (Paraguay) and Hipólito Mejía (Dominican Republic).
Also signed the declaration Eduardo Frei (Chile), Luis Alberto Lacalle (Uruguay), Guillermo Lasso, (Ecuador), Mauricio Macri (Argentina), Jamil Mahuad (Ecuador), Carlos Mesa (Bolivia), Lenin Moreno (Ecuador), Mireya Moscoso (Panama), Andrés Pastrana (Colombia), Ernesto Pérez Balladares (Panama), Jorge Tuto Quiroga (Bolivia), Mariano Rajoy (Spain), Miguel Ángel Rodríguez (Costa Rica), Álvaro Uribe (Colombia) and Juan Carlos Wasmosy (Paraguay).
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