Andrés Velásquez: The theft of the elections will have an enormous social cost

The opposition Andrés Velásquez affirmed this Tuesday that the “theft of the presidential elections” of July 28, in which the National Electoral Council (CNE) proclaimed Nicolás Maduro as the winner, while the opposition report “fraud”will have an “enormous social cost.”

“The theft of the elections not only hits the Constitution and denies the sovereign vote, it will also have an enormous social cost since the deterioration of the economy and public services will increase,” said the opponent in a message published in X.

Velásquez maintained that Maduro is “undemocratic and a worse ruler,” so – he said – “the people voted to get out of this suffering.”

On September 28, Maduro assured that he will be sworn in for the 2025-2031 period on January 10, as established by the Constitution, despite the complaint of “electoral fraud” by the majority opposition, grouped in the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), and the demands of the international community that disaggregated results be published.

“On January 10, the people’s president, Nicolás Maduro Moros, will be sworn in with the people in the streets, in their millions, as the Constitution mandates,” said the president after a demonstration celebrating his controversial re-election in the state of La Guaira (north). .

He dismissed the fact that the PUD’s standard-bearer, Edmundo González Urrutia, was sworn in as president, as anti-Chavismo claims, although the opposition insists that he won the elections by a wide margin.

The CNE proclaimed Maduro as the winner of the presidential elections, despite the fact that to date it has not published the disaggregated results, as contemplated in the official schedule.

The ruling party also relies on a ruling from the Supreme Court – chaired by Chavista Caryslia Rodríguez – that validated the CNE announcement, while the opposition supports its claim on 83.5% of the minutes collected by witnesses and polling station members, which reflect -he insists- the triumph of González Urrutia, exiled in Spain since September 8.

However, the Executive believes that these minutes, which the opposition published on a website, are “false.”

The theft of the elections not only hits the Constitution and denies the sovereign vote, it will also have an enormous social cost since the deterioration of the economy and public services will increase.
Maduro is undemocratic and a worse ruler.
The people voted to get out of this suffering

— Andrés Velásquez (@AndresVelasqz) October 1, 2024