The government of Peru recognized Edmundo González as the legitimate winner of the elections held last Sunday in Venezuela, amidst a deterioration in the stability of that country due to allegations of electoral fraud by the regime of Nicolás Maduro.
Chancellor Javier González-Olaechea said that "with more than 70% of the records uploaded to a website" that he himself was able to verify, "it is clear that he is the elected president of Venezuela with more than a 30-point difference."
"This position is shared by numerous countries, governments, and international organizations," said the Peruvian Foreign Minister.
Regarding Maduro, he stated that, "following the fraud committed" in the elections on Sunday, Peru considers him "a person who wishes to perpetuate himself in power through dictatorship."
"The situation is very regrettable, we would have hoped that it wouldn't happen, but the deterioration of democratic conditions has been practically disastrous," he criticized.
These statements arise in a growing climate of instability in Venezuela, where early on Monday the National Electoral Council (CNE) announced that Maduro won by just over 704,114 votes against González Urrutia, the candidate of the majority opposition coalition, when 20% of the counting records had still not been totaled.
That translates to 2,394,268 votes, the destination of which is unknown and could change the final results. Furthermore, María Corina Machado, from the opposition alliance, stated that González Urrutia won the Presidency by a wide margin and created a website where she uploaded 73% of the electoral records to support her claim.
After the strong criticism over the apparent theft of the election, the government of Nicolás Maduro demanded that Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Peru, Panama, the Dominican Republic, and Uruguay withdraw their "representatives in Venezuelan territory."
According to an official statement, Maduro also decided to "withdraw all diplomatic personnel from the missions" in these seven Latin American countries that criticized his murky reelection.
The Venezuelan people continue to take to the streets of the country demanding that Maduro leave and respect the election results.
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