Sebastian Bugallo believes it is necessary for the Venezuelan government to present evidence of the election results that led to Nicolás Maduro’s third victory. In an interview with CMTVThe MEP said “whoever wins should be more interested in proving it” and that there is a need to think about what is happening in the Latin American country.
Nicolás Maduro was elected on Monday with more than 51% of the vote. The re-election has led to several leaders from around the world challenging the results, citing a lack of transparency and the possibility of election fraud. The issue is that many of the election protocols were not published after the announcement.
“I don’t know if the result is false or true, I just know that whoever won should be more interested in proving it. Governments don’t say he lost, they ask to prove he won. No one takes sides,” he stressed.
“We didn’t intend to go there to create trouble.”
The MEP even recounted an episode he had experienced in Caracas on Friday. He considered the accusations made by Venezuela when expelling his delegation “strange”, “absurd” and “nonsense” and assured that he had not gone to Caracas to engage in “guerrilla activity”.
“We made it clear to the Venezuelan authorities in advance that we respect the sovereignty of Venezuela and the electoral law, and that we were not going to engage in any kind of activism and that this trip was in line with the institutional invitation from the opposition leadership. No, we were going to go there to create unrest,” he began.
The MEP explained that he had tried to find out whether Venezuela would be inconvenienced by his delegation’s visit to the country, but despite the matter being formally raised, they had not received any response.
“We didn’t want to cause any trouble or engage in party activity. We did everything we had to do. We were expelled with charges that didn’t make much sense. It was all a bit unusual and absurd,” he explained.
Author: Sara Reis Teixeira
Source: CM Jornal
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