Hundreds of Chavistas and opponents demonstrated yesterday Saturday in different regions of Venezuela for and against, respectively, the results of the presidential elections held two months ago, on July 28, in which the National Electoral Council (CNE) proclaimed Nicolás Maduro as the winner.
The Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), the main opposition coalition, called for demonstrations in small groups in different sectors of each city or town in Venezuela, as explained by opposition leader María Corina Machado.
The former deputy indicated that the protests should be carried out in the “swarm” modeso that citizens can “appear and disappear” quickly and thus avoid being detained, after some 2,400 people ended up behind bars in the context of the post-election crisis, some of them apprehended during the demonstrations.
This was the first demonstration held by the majority anti-Chavismo since its standard-bearer, Edmundo González Urrutia, left the country for Spain.where he has requested asylum and where he has received, in the last three weeks, recognition from the European Parliament and other international organizations as “elected president” in the Venezuelan elections.
González Urrutia, in fact, joined his countrymen from Madrid, where he attended a protest in the Plaza de la Puerta del Sol before thousands of people. The opposition candidate appeared briefly at the protest, although he did not intervene.
The anti-Chavistas met in the states of Monagas, Falcón, Lara, Yaracuy, Mérida, Bolívar, Barinas, Delta Amacuro, Apurewhere citizens read the results of the voting records that they obtained from a website in which, according to the PUD, “83.5%” of these papers obtained through witnesses and polling station members are published during election day.
“We do have the record in hand, we do have the victory in our hands and we continue to demonstrate it,” indicated the opposition campaign command of the Monagas state in X, where they shared a video of the demonstration.
PSUV mobilized Chavistas in several states
Meanwhile, Chavismo mobilized in several states such as Aragua, Monagas, Amazonas, Sucre, Lara, Apure, Falcón, La Guaira, Delta Amacuro to celebrate the controversial re-election of Nicolás Maduro, a result questioned inside and outside the country.
The president of the National Assembly of Venezuela, Jorge Rodríguez, said that two months “from the victory” of Chavismo, Maduro’s followers “defeated fascism”“.
Government supporters, convened by the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), attended the event with flags and traditional symbols of the ruling party, including images of the late President Hugo Chávez (1999-2013), as well as banners with the image of Maduro.
Maduro participated in the demonstration in La Guairawhere he assured that in these two months they have consolidated the electoral “victory”, despite the fact that a good part of the international community has demanded the disaggregated publication of the results that confirm the president’s triumph.
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