By Luis De Jesus
30 Jul 2024, 18:41 PM EDT
Opposition leader María Corina Machado said that former ambassador Edmundo González Urrutia won the presidential elections in Venezuela, thus challenging the results of the National Electoral Council, which indicate that socialist Nicolás Maduro supposedly won.
How many votes would Edmundo González have obtained?
However, and in the face of opacity and serious allegations of irregularities, the leader assured on Monday that Edmundo González obtained, with 73% of the votes that she claims to have, a total of 6,275,182 votes, while Nicolás Maduro barely reached the support of 2,759,256 citizens.
“We have 73.20% of the votes and, with this result, our president-elect is Edmundo González Urrutia. The difference was so big, so big, the difference was overwhelming, the difference was in all the states of Venezuela,” Machado said at a press conference.
The opposition member mentioned that all these records have been verified, counted and digitalized. This information has been published on a website so that Venezuelan citizens and world leaders can access it and verify the possible defeat of Chavismo.
Let’s put it the other way around. Let’s take the total number of votes there are (10,058,774) and apply the percentages to one decimal place.
What result does this give us? These figures. If we round them up, they give… exactly the number of votes per option that the CNE bulletin showed. pic.twitter.com/grVboh9w7t
— Víctor García de la Vega 🌹🇪🇺 (@victorgdlv) July 30, 2024
On Tuesday, although she did not specify figures, the leader María Corina Machado announced that the democratic opposition has more than 84% of the votes, while the National Electoral Council has still not presented evidence to support the “victory” of the Chavista leader.
At a rally at a United Nations headquarters in Caracas, he challenged the National Electoral Council to publish the minutes.
“Violence is to violate the truth, to pretend to ignore popular sovereignty; do not believe that anyone will accept now that they are coming to adjust or change the records. We already know the original official records and the whole world has seen them. So from here we challenge the National Electoral Council to hand over the records once and for all,” said the leader.
He questioned the delay in the publication of the results by the electoral authorities. “That is the truth of Edmundo González’s victory. And we tell them not to try to find us to negotiate the results. The results are not negotiable, popular sovereignty is not negotiable. The only thing we are willing to negotiate is a peaceful transition with guarantees for all parties, and our president-elect has said so clearly.”
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