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The United States, the European Union and more than a dozen Latin American countries said Monday that they will not recognize the results of the parliamentary elections in Venezuela that resulted in most of President Nicolás Maduro’s allies. The Electoral Board said early Monday that only 31 percent of the 20 million voters who have the right to vote are those who participated in the elections held on Sunday, representing less than half of the turnout in the elections. parliamentarians of 2015.
The election results put Parliament back in Maduro’s hands, despite the state of the economy and the severe sanctions program of the United States, as well as waves of mass immigration. According to statistics released Monday, a party coalition supporting Maduro called the “Great National Pole” won 68.9 percent of the vote.
“The United States and many democracies around the world condemn this farce that failed to achieve the lowest level of credibility,” US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement today.
European Union foreign policy official Josep Borrell said Venezuela’s elections “did not meet minimum international standards.” A group of Latin American countries, including Brazil and Colombia, issued a statement saying that the vote “lacks legitimacy and legal capacity.”
Earlier this year, the Venezuelan Supreme Court placed several opposition parties in the hands of politicians expelled from those same parties for their alleged ties to Maduro. This was one of the main reasons why the opposition considered the vote fraudulent.
Members of the electoral board were appointed without the participation of the opposition and Maduro refused to allow meaningful electoral observation. Maduro’s allies said that electoral conditions were the same as those won by the opposition in the 2015 parliamentary elections, and that the government was indifferent to outside criticism.
Source: Reuters
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