Maria Corina Machado’s message to the G7 for its statement on Venezuela: “It is very significant”

Opposition leader María Corina Machado thanked the G7 on Tuesday for its “firm position in defense of the truth” by demanding that the “regime,” in reference to the Nicolas Maduro’s governmentto be “held accountable for human rights violations” following the presidential elections on July 28.

“It is very significant that the G7, through the governments of Germany, Canada, the United States, France, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom, has included the situation in Venezuela in its joint statement,” Machado said through X, after the group asked the UN General Assembly to “put an end to human rights violations,” statements that were collected in a document.

Likewise, the G7 expressed their outrage at the arrest warrant and the “threats” against the standard-bearer of the largest opposition coalition in Venezuela, Edmundo González Urrutia, who is exiled in Spain after denouncing “political persecution.”

According to Machado, the international community understands that “the transition” implies “the validation” of the result of the presidential elections, in which the largest anti-Chavez bloc, grouped in the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), claims that González Urrutia won.

The PUD justifies this victory with 83.5% of the electoral records that it claims to have collected from witnesses and members of the polling station, which were later published on a website, documents that the government calls “false.”

For the G7, the official result of the presidential elections, which gave Maduro re-election, “lacks credibility and democratic legitimacy, as indicated by the reports of the UN panel of experts and independent international observers, as well as the data published by the opposition.”

Following Maduro’s declaration as the winner, the PUD denounced electoral “fraud,” triggering mass protests against the official result, which left 25 dead and more than 2,400 arrested, according to authorities.

The G7 urged “Venezuelan representatives to end all human rights violations and abuses, arbitrary detentions and widespread restrictions on fundamental freedoms, which particularly affect the political opposition, human rights defenders and representatives of independent media and civil society.”

Within the framework of the UNGA, it is very significant that the G7, through the governments of Germany, Canada, the United States, France, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom, has included the situation in Venezuela in its joint statement.

We Venezuelans appreciate this unequivocal and firm… https://t.co/L55AKYEx2l

— Maria Corina Machado (@MariaCorinaYA) September 24, 2024