Lasso calls on international courts to act on Venezuela

He Former President of Ecuador Guillermo Lasso The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Thursday that international courts of justice “have an obligation to act urgently” in the crisis that Venezuela is going through, and in particular in favor of former Venezuelan presidential candidate Edmundo González Urrutia, whom several countries recognize as the legitimate winner of the last presidential elections.

«International judicial bodies They have an obligation to act urgently“since the Venezuelan national jurisdiction has become a subterfuge for impunity,” said Lasso in reference to the investigations opened against González Urrutia by the Venezuelan Prosecutor’s Office for not recognizing the victory that the electoral bodies of Venezuela gave to President Nicolás Maduro.

In a message posted on social media, the former Ecuadorian president expressed his support for González Urrutia and opposition leader María Corina Machado.

“(Machado is) ‘the legitimate leader of the opposition, in the face of the forced exile into which the democratically elected Venezuelan head of state was forced, due to the systematic harassment inflicted by the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro,'” said Lasso regarding González Urrutia and the asylum he received in Spain.

“This new attempt to undermine the legitimacy of the July 28 elections and prevent a peaceful and democratic transition will have no place in the free world,” added the former Ecuadorian leader.

Guillermo Lasso will redouble his efforts for Venezuela

Lasso, of conservative tendency, reiterated his willingness to redouble efforts “to continue promoting the validity of the values ​​of freedom and the rule of law in Venezuelain order to restore democratic order and peace for its citizens.”

The current government of Ecuador, led by President Daniel Noboa, is one of those that recognizes González Urrutia as the elected president of Venezuela, considering that the results presented by the National Electoral Council (CNE) lack credibility.

González Urrutia was the presidential candidate of the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), the largest anti-Chavez bloc, which insists that its standard-bearer is the president-elect, which it has supported with “83.5%” of the electoral records, which were published on a website and later labeled as false by the Government and the Prosecutor’s Office.

Maduro was proclaimed president by the National Electoral Council (CNE) which, despite the insistence of numerous countries, has not yet published the results broken down by voting center as established by its own regulations.