By EFE
Sep 29, 2024, 1:42 PM EDT
Hundreds of Chavistas and opponents demonstrated this Saturday in different regions of Venezuela in favor and against, respectively, the results of the presidential elections that were held two months ago, on July 28, in which the National Electoral Council (CNE ) proclaimed Nicolás Maduro as the winner.
The Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), the main opposition coalition of the Caribbean nation, called for demonstrations in small groups in different sectors of each city or town in Venezuela, as explained by opposition leader María Corina Machado.
The former deputy indicated that the protests should be carried out in the “swarm” mode, so that citizens can “appear and disappear” quickly and thus avoid being arrested, after some 2,400 people ended up behind bars in the context of the post-election crisis, some of them apprehended during the demonstrations.
This was the first demonstration held by the majority anti-Chavismo since its standard-bearer, Edmundo González Urrutia, left the country for Spain, where he has requested asylum and where, in the last three weeks, he has received recognition from the European Parliament and other organizations. international elections as “elected president” in the Venezuelan elections.
The opponents met in the states of Monagas, Falcón, Lara, Yaracuy, Mérida, Bolívar, Barinas, Delta Amacuro, Apure, where citizens read the results of the voting records that they obtained from a website in which, according to According to the PUD, “83.5%” of these papers obtained through witnesses and polling station members during election day are published.
“We do have the record in hand, we do have the victory in our hands and we continue to demonstrate it,” indicated the opposition campaign command of the Monagas state in X, where they shared a video of the demonstration.
Meanwhile, Chavismo mobilized in several states such as Aragua, Monagas, Amazonas, Sucre, Lara, Apure, Falcón, La Guaira, Delta Amacuro to celebrate the controversial re-election of Nicolás Maduro, a result questioned inside and outside the country.
Government supporters, convened by the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), attended the event with flags and traditional symbols of the ruling party, including images of the late President Hugo Chávez, as well as banners with the image of Maduro.
Maduro participated in the demonstration in La Guaira, where he assured that in these two months they have consolidated the electoral “victory”, despite the fact that a large part of the international community has demanded the disaggregated publication of the results that confirm the president’s triumph.
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