Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado On Thursday, he said he feared for his life in a column written secretly in a US newspaper. The Wall Street Journal and said he had evidence that the elections had failed. Nicolas Maduro.

“Mr. Maduro did not win the presidential election in Venezuela on Sunday. He lost overwhelmingly to Edmundo Gonzalez.67% to 30%. I know this is true because I can prove it. “I have receipts received directly from more than 80% of the country’s polling stations,” the politician said.

«I am writing this secretly, I fear for my life.“My freedom and the freedom of my compatriots by the dictatorship led by Nicolás Maduro,” says the anti-Chavista politician, who warns: “They could arrest me while I am writing these words.”

Before recounting the events since Sunday’s election, he notes that most of his team is also in hiding: six of them have taken refuge in the Argentine embassy, ​​which is now under the protection of the Brazilian government, and calls on the international community to act against the government “clearly illegitimate” Maduro.

Confronted with the announcement by the National Electoral Council (CNE) that Maduro was declared the winner, Machado insisted that he had not won any of Venezuela’s 24 states, according to “four different quick counts.”two independent exit polls” and “every vote receipt we’ve seen is coming in real time.”

The opposition leader stressed that voluntary witnesses at polling stations They were subjected to “neutralizing” actions on the orders of Maduro.but “they spent their lives protecting the receipts overnight” so that on Monday they were able to “confirm the mathematical certainty” of Gonzalez’s victory.

Opponents published these results on the CNE website, which he was obliged to publish his results Less than 48 hours after the election, it “quickly shut down” its website due to an alleged cyberattack from North Macedonia, he said.

Machado ends his letter by condemning Maduro’s “brutal repression” of the protests after summing up what he considers to be the 20 dead, 1,000 arrested and 11 forced disappearances state security forces and calls on the international community.

“We Venezuelans are doing our duty. We voted to remove Mr. Maduro. Now the international community must decide whether to tolerate a clearly illegitimate government“Says the opponent, who asks “those who reject authoritarianism and support democracy” to join the Venezuelan cause.

Call for mass demonstration in Venezuela

On the other hand, on social networks the opposition leader called on Venezuelans to demonstrate next Saturday, August 3, against the alleged election fraud that resulted in the victory of Chavista Nicolás Maduro.

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Through video, Maria Corina Machado invited her compatriots remain “firm, organized and mobilized.”

“This Saturday, August 3, we will all meet; with our children, grandchildren, grandmothers and grandfathers in all the cities of Venezuela at 10 am.”

He noted that the purpose of this mobilization is to honor “each of these heroes” who “fulfilled and defended the will of the Venezuelan people on July 28,” the day of the elections.

(according to information from EFE)