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Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Thursday he did not think it was “prudent” to call for new elections in Venezuela now, as suggested by Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, as a solution to the crisis.
“Let’s see how the court rules, I just think it’s unwise for us as outsiders, foreign governments, whoever they are, to have an opinion on what the Venezuelans need to resolve,” the president announced at the morning of the meeting.
Reporters questioned the Mexican leader about his remarks. Lula on Wednesday laid out two possible solutions to Venezuela’s post-election crisis, which saw President Nicolas Maduro re-elected: forming a coalition government or holding new elections.
Lula said in an interview with T Radio that Maduro “knows that he owes everyone an explanation” and that Brazil was working with Mexico and Colombia to find a solution.
But López Obrador assured that, apart from a conversation on August 1 with Colombian President Gustavo Petro on the issue, he had not spoken to the Brazilian president.
He reiterated that Mexico’s position was to await a ruling from the electoral tribunal.
“We will wait for the country’s electoral bodies to make a decision and we will proceed with caution,” he insisted.
Although he has yet to acknowledge Maduro’s victory, the president again criticized governments and international organizations such as the Organization of American States (OAS) and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who have already recognized the victory of opponent Edmundo González Urrutia.
“It’s principled, we want good relations with peoples, it’s not just about governments, it’s about people, and it’s about being careful. We’ll see how they address the election, but it was clear from the beginning that their attitude was very biased.”
Even so, he denied that he took sides and reiterated that Mexico’s constitution prohibits interfering in the affairs of other countries.
“We are not in favor of one or the other, what we want is for the results to be made public and for the competent authorities of the country where the elections are held to decide if there is a disagreement, there must be other circumstances, the only thing we ask is that everything be resolved peacefully, without violence,” he concluded.
After the elections and the announcement of Nicolás Maduro’s victory by the National Electoral Council (CNE), the opposition held demonstrations against “fraud” that, according to non-governmental organizations, left more than two dozen people dead, more than 2,000 others have been detained, and there have been complaints of intensified government repression and human rights violations.
According to the CNE, Maduro was re-elected with 51.95% of the votes cast, with 96.87% of the minutes counted, while González Urrutia received 43.18%.
However, the majority opposition party, which forms the United Democratic Platform (PUD), published on its website the minutes of voting witnesses in “more than 80% of the seats”, proving, as it claimed, that its candidate won the election by a large margin.
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