Cabello: We don’t care what the OAS or the Carter Center says

The Minister of the Interior of Venezuela, Diosdado Cabello, said that the government does not “care what the Carter Center says,” which this Wednesday showed, before the Permanent Council of the OAS, the voting records that would give victory to the opponent Edmundo González Urrutia in the July 28 elections, in which Nicolás Maduro was proclaimed the winner by the electoral body.

«Now what is left of the Carter Center (…) is coming to show some minutes there at the OAS. The OAS is going to wash that vest, we don’t care what the OAS says, we don’t care what this lady from the Carter Center says“said Cabello, referring to the main advisor for Latin America of this American organization, Jennie Lincoln, who presented the alleged documents.

The Venezuelan minister, during his weekly program ‘Con el mallet giving’, assured that the Caribbean country “decided” for the official candidacy, so on January 10, when the next presidential term begins, “this people goes out to be sworn in together to its president Nicolás Maduro.

In addition to Cabello, the head of the National Assembly, elected in 2020, the Chavista Jorge Rodríguez, rejected Lincoln’s statements, whom he pointed out as “an agent of the USAID (United States Agency for International Development).”

“Mrs. Lincoln It tarnishes and tarnishes the good name of (former) President Jimmy Carter. spitting lies and attacking Venezuela. “We will not echo their garbage,” Rodríguez said on Instagram.

Carter Center shows the electoral records at the OAS

The Carter Center’s senior advisor for Latin America, Jennie Lincoln, shows an alleged electoral record of the presidential elections in Venezuela, this Wednesday during a regular session of the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS), in Washington (United States ). Photo: EFE/ Lenin Nolly

During his speech at the session of the Organization of American States (OAS), held in Washington, Lincoln assured that these minutes, which he received “by mail”, They are “original” and “they have a QR code that is significant and that allow witnesses from thousands and thousands of tables to systematically collect information.

The minutes would show that González Urrutia, standard bearer of the main opposition coalition – the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD) -, won the elections with 67% of the voteswhile Maduro would have obtained 31%.

The National Electoral Council (CNE), however, maintains that Maduro was re-elected in the presidential elections, despite the fact that it has not published the minutes with the disaggregated results, even though it was contemplated in the official schedule.

Lincoln indicated that the “lack of transparency of the Venezuelan CNE and its refusal to provide data from the tables of its machines and the minutes to explain the declaration of a winner “It does not meet international standards.”

In the same session, the Secretary General of the OAS, Luis Almagro, declared that “the electoral process was from the beginning one of the worst things that can be committed.” «As expected, it was neither free, fair nor transparent.«Almagro said.