Speaking at the press conference offered by President Nicolás Maduro to the national and foreign media, the legislator showed the documents proving what he called “great farce” installed by the extreme right-wing losers in last Sunday’s elections.
Rodriguez pointed out that this was nothing more than the substitution of reality for another one supported by a media strategy and a “string of lies that were created”.
He recalled that none of the spokespersons of the opposition candidate Edmundo González never accepted nor signed the agreement of the candidates proposed by the National Electoral Council (NEC), and did not recognize the only body empowered to decide who was the winner of the suffrages.
The Venezuelan congressman showed the video in which opposition spokesman Biaggio Pilieri in a “shameless manner and in violation of the law” said that the United Democratic Platform “will chant fraud, will not recognize the result of the National Electoral Council, but its own minutes”.
The leader of the national leadership of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela revealed that on the night of July 29, after the elections, Gonzalez made available to Venezuelans a web page where “supposedly some minutes with the election results” were to be posted.
He drew the attention to the fact that the day before the elections, the domain www.resultadospresidencialesvenezuela2024.com was rented for one year, which evidences that they had decided “not to abide by the results of the NEC, but rather they set up a pantomime with a sort of parallel electoral council”.
“They were never willing to accept the legal decision of the majority at the polls”, he insisted, and added that this website was bought in the United Kingdom and with an Amazon server, for which, he said, “Jeff Bezos is also in the coup d’état” against Venezuela, he denounced.
On Friday, NEC’s president Elvis Amoroso explained that the elections of July 28 had an electoral roll of 21 million 321 thousand 805 eligible voters.
There were 12 million 386 thousand 669 ballots counted, for a 59.97 percentage point turnout, while valid votes amounted to 12 million 335 thousand 884 (99.59) and invalid votes 50 thousand 785 (0.41).
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