IDEA Group asks Lula, Petro and Sheinbaum to recognize Edmundo González as president
A group of 27 former Hispanic American heads of state asked this Monday the presidents of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva; Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, and Colombia, Gustavo Petro, that they recognize Edmundo González Urrutia as the elected president of Venezuela.
The former leaders who make up the Democratic Initiative of Spain and the Americas (IDEA) demanded in a statement that these governments cease their “omissive behavior” and recognize González Urrutia as “the president democratically elected by Venezuelans.”
This statement is the result of the conclusions and recommendations reached during its IX Presidential Dialogue on October 16 and 17 in Miami (Florida).
The IDEA Group statement on the recognition of Edmundo González
In this annual forum, the former heads of state focused on what they considered “electoral fraud” that occurred in the presidential elections of July 28, in which the Venezuelan electoral authorities declared Nicolás Maduro the winner, without until now having presented the results in any form. disaggregated.
The Venezuelan opposition majority has rejected the official results and, under the protection of electoral records that were made public, it considers that its candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia (today exiled in Spain), was the winner and is the elected president of Venezuela, as was also highlighted by the former rulers gathered at Miami Dade College (MDC), venue of the event.
This Monday’s statement insists that Brazil, Mexico and Colombia recognize González Urrutia as president-elect and that he take office on January 10, because “only in this way will democracy be preserved in their respective nations.” .
Otherwise, the statement adds, this omission will accuse these governments of “active collusion with the repressive regime of Venezuela and its crimes against humanity.”
The former Ibero-American leaders also denounce that the Electoral Power that recognized Maduro’s victory “is subject to the dictatorship” of the Venezuelan president, “has disrespected the Constitution and the laws” and has refused to make public the electoral records and their results.
They are convinced that “the dictator Maduro” “electoral victory” has been “falsely claimed”something that, if accepted, “will seriously affect the democratic experience in the region.”
The signatories
Among the signatories are former presidents Mario Abdo (Paraguay), Óscar Arias (Costa Rica), José María Aznar (Spain), Nicolás Ardito Barletta (Panama), Felipe Calderón (Mexico), Rafael Ángel Calderón and Laura Chinchilla (Costa Rica), Alfredo Cristiani (El Salvador), Iván Duque (Colombia), Vicente Fox (Mexico) and Federico Franco (Paraguay) and Hipólito Mejía (Dominican Republic).
Also signing the declaration were Eduardo Frei (Chile), Luis Alberto Lacalle (Uruguay), Guillermo Lasso (Ecuador), Mauricio Macri (Argentina), Jamil Mahuad (Ecuador), Carlos Mesa (Bolivia), Lenin Moreno (Ecuador), Mireya Moscoso (Panama), Andrés Pastrana (Colombia), Ernesto Pérez Balladares (Panama), Jorge Tuto Quiroga (Bolivia)Mariano Rajoy (Spain), Miguel Ángel Rodríguez (Costa Rica), Álvaro Uribe (Colombia) and Juan Carlos Wasmosy (Paraguay). EFE
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