The former Argentine president says that Caracas has a copy of the allegedly hacked results
EFE/14ymedio, Mexico City/Santiago de Chile/Caracas/ 4 August 2024 — The former president of Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, joined the call made by different Latin American presidents on Saturday for the electoral authorities of Venezuela to publish the voting records of the July 28 elections, which showed President Nicolás Maduro’s defeat at the hands of Edmundo González Urrutia. Just as the opposition has already done
From Mexico, where she traveled to participate in a forum organized by the ruling party, Movimiento de Regeneración Nacional (Morena), Fernández de Kirchner urged the National Electoral Council (CNE) to publish the results, “not only for the Venezuelan people, the opposition and democracy,” but also “for the legacy of Hugo Chávez himself.”
“That’s what we have to ask for: that the records be published so that everyone can scrutinize them – international public opinion, the opposition and the people of Venezuela,” Fernández de Kirchner said.
The former Argentine president also affirmed she “fully” shared in the statement signed last Thursday by the Governments of Brazil, Mexico and Colombia, where they called on the Venezuelan authorities to publish in an “expeditious way” the data “disaggregated by polling station” of the elections held a week ago in the South American country.
“That’s what we have to ask for: that the results be published so that everyone can scrutinize them, international public opinion, the opposition, the people of Venezuela”
After this Saturday’s demonstrations in Caracas, led by María Corina Machado, Fernández de Kichner said she was “happy” because Machado had come out of “clandestinity,” where she was for security reasons, after Maduro threatened to put the leaders of the opposition in jail.
The former president (2007-2015) and former vice president (2019-2023) of Argentina traveled to Mexico on Friday night and is expected to meet with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and his successor, the president-elect, Claudia Sheinbaum.
Meanwhile, the president of Chile, Gabriel Boric, said on Saturday that he maintains his position on the outcome of the presidential elections in Venezuela and will not v