Former anti-election candidate Edmundo Gonzalez asked the country’s President Nicolas Maduro: that “the peaceful transition chosen by Venezuelans on July 28 will no longer be postponed” at polling stations amid complaints of fraud from the opposition after Maduro was declared the winner of the election.

“The decision to continue to recognize the will of the people expressed in the elections of July 28 has affected our democracy and led us to an economic and social abyss. Without a political transition in Venezuela, it is impossible to attract significant investment to the country. I call on Nicolas Maduro to respect the will“He stated this in a video published on his social networks.

Gonzalez believed that “played with the lives of millions of his compatriotsand assured that “with each passing day without a political solution, the country’s economy has worsened further.” “This tragedy is your responsibility,” he said.

“America deserves a future of stability, prosperity and peace, but to achieve it we must respect the will of the people and allow a transition to a government that can restore trust and open the doors to economic development,” he added.

During the day, Brazil and Colombia proposed repeating the elections, but the approach was rejected by Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, who said that ““ignoring” what was chosen in the elections “was disrespectful to Venezuelans”and was criticized by the president himself, who noted that “every president knows what to do with his own internal affairs.”

“Venezuela is the guarantor of the peace talks (in Colombia), and I will never express an opinion on what Colombia should do to overcome a war that is getting worse and worse. I will never publish advice on my social networks. No, every president, every state, every country knows what they should do with their internal affairs,” he told the media.

Maduro, who said he would continue to help Colombia in its peace process without interfering or interfering, cited Brazil’s election won by Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, recalling that former President Jair Bolsonaro, “an ally of the fascist far-right in Venezuela, also claimed fraud and did not admit defeat.”