Mexican President AMLO Calls for Non-Intervention in Venezuela’s Elections
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, July 2024. Photo: X/ @Marco_Teruggi
August 1, 2024 Hour: 9:41 am
Lopez Obrador asked the Organization of American States to stop engaging in ‘politicking’.
On Tuesday, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) called on the international community to avoid taking an interventionist stance regarding the presidential elections in Venezuela.
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At his regular daily press conference, Lopez Obrador recommended waiting for the final outcome of the elections, which were held Sunday in the South American country.
“It is a matter of waiting for the results and also respecting the self-determination of the people,” the president told reporters at the National Palace in Mexico City.
“Don’t the governments of other countries … have things to do? Why do they have to get involved in the affairs of other countries? Why the interference?” he asked.
Lopez Obrador also questioned the role of the Organization of American States (OAS), urging this U.S.-controlled organization to stop engaging in “politicking.” In the name of democracy, “atrocities are committed,” the Mexican president warned, referring to governments keen to take sides in Venezuela.
“On the basis of what foundations the OAS holds that the other candidate won? Where are the evidence?” AMLO said, adding that the OAS “is very predictable.”
On Sunday night, Elvis Amoroso, the president of the National Electoral Council (CNE), presented the data from the electoral records computed up to that point, which clearly indicated the statistical trend that ultimately prevailed.
In an election in which over 21 million citizens were called to participate, the candidate of the Great Patriotic Pole, Nicolas Maduro, obtained 51.2 percent of the votes, followed by the candidate of the Democratic Unitary Platform, Edmundo Gonzales, who obtained 44.2 percent of the votes.
Autor: teleSUR/ JF
Fuente: Xinhua
