Gustavo Petro says that elections in Venezuela were a mistake: “There is no free vote”

Gustavo Petro, president of Colombia, said this week that he believes that Holding the presidential elections in Venezuela was a mistake because there is no free vote in the country and recognized that there is no clarity in the supposed victory of Nicolás Maduro because they have not shown the minutes.

In an interview offered in Brazil for the media Or Globe, Petro indicated that the behavior of the Maduro government was dark by refusing to show the electoral recordswhich were published by the Venezuelan opposition and demonstrate a resounding victory for Edmundo González.

“I believe that a common front on Venezuela, whatever the policy, will no longer exist. I think the elections were a mistake, looking back later. I was in favor of them being done. But there is no free vote if there is a blockade,” he indicated.

Gustavo Petro reiterates call to show electoral records in Venezuela

Petro emphasized that there are certain interests in the country because it is one of the largest oil producers in the world, which may cause doubts.

“It did not generate clarity about what they claim, that they won the elections. And he left that dark mantle by not showing the minutes. The demand for a radical change in the government at this time is not realistic,” he asserted.

Petro is at the G20 Leaders Summit, held in Brazil, where he met with the new president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, and with other Latin American leaders such as Brazilian Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Gabriel Boric Font, from Chile.