They ask that the right of Venezuelans to protest be respected.

They explain that “the opposition claims that it has collected and published more than 80% of the voting records collected at each polling station” and that “this verification is necessary to recognize the will of the Venezuelan people.”

“During this process, the rights of all Venezuelans, especially political leaders, must be respected. “We strongly condemn any detention or threat against them.”

And they argue that “the will of the Venezuelan people must be respected, as well as their right to protest and peaceful assembly.”

“We will continue to closely monitor the situation together with our partners and support the Venezuelan people’s call for democracy and peace,” the joint statement said.

The joint statement was signed by French President Emmanuel Macron, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Spanish President Pedro Sánchez, Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, and Portuguese Prime Minister Luis Montenegro.

Cristina Fernandez: “In the name of Hugo Chavez’s legacy” the protocol will be published in Venezuela

Former Argentine President Cristina Fernandez has joined calls for Venezuela’s electoral authorities to be transparent and publish the minutes of Sunday’s elections, in which the National Electoral Council (CNE) declared incumbent President Nicolás Maduro the winner.

At a forum organized by Mexico’s ruling Morena party, Fernandez called on the CNE to publish the protocol “not only for the Venezuelan people, for the opposition and for democracy,” but also “for the own legacy of Hugo Chavez, the former Venezuelan president (1999-2013).

This is what we must ask for: that the protocols be published so that everyone can read them: international public opinion, the opposition, the people of Venezuela.

Likewise, the former Argentine president said she “fully” shares the statement signed on Thursday, August 1, by Brazil, Mexico and Colombia, in which they called on Venezuela’s electoral authorities to “promptly” publish the data “disaggregated by polling station” of the elections. (EFE)