«Nicols Maduro knows he owes everyone an explanation,» he stressed today Thursday. Lula da Silva during a radio interview. The president of Brazil, who still does not recognize Maduro as the winner of the elections, took the opportunity to make public what his international advisor had already announced, Celso Love: your big bet is rerun of presidential elections in Venezuela.
«Maduro has six months in office, if he had common sense he could call new elections, creating an electoral committee with members of the opposition and observers from all over the world,» Da Silva said. His former Foreign Minister, Brazil’s representative for the Venezuelan crisis, also spoke about it. a sort of second round of electionswhich does not exist in Venezuelan electoral legislation.
In the afternoon, Reuters reported that the White House supported the Lula Solution of new elections, but this position was later corrected by the Biden administration, arguing that the president, at first, after being asked whether he was in favor of new elections, I misunderstood the question and answered yes. This response created confusion for an hour, since the United States had denounced the incident mega-fraud of Maduro and had recognized Gonzalez Urrutia as the winner of the presidential elections.
The Brazilian president also suggested the possibility of forming a coalition government between Chavismo and the opposition. Both Mara Corina Machado and Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia According to 83% of the election data held by the opposition, they previously rejected the possibility of repeating the elections in which they defeated Maduro without extenuating circumstances. Edmund understood 67% of the votes compared to Maduro’s 30%, about four million differences in support.
Lula, in his interview with Radio T, insisted on this point It is not yet known who won the elections because the minutes were not released and therefore could not be independently verified. This is the thesis that Brazil has supported from the beginning within the three mediators, formed by Mexico and Colombia. The American president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obradordecided in the last hours to step aside to support Maduro, with the idea that it would be the Chavista Supreme Court that would sort out the situation mega-fraud orchestrated by the government. A court that has not ruled against the revolution on any issue of medium importance in the last two decades.
Da Silva acknowledged that his excellent historical relations with the «son of Chávez» are not going through their best moment. The presidents of Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia and Mexico participate in the appeal Great Homelandthe utopia that the left, the populists and the revolutionaries want to impose under the guise of an integrated America.
Lula’s current position contrasts with the one he himself followed in his last electoral victory. Jair Bolsonarowhen he won with only 1.8% of the vote and the then president tried to ignore the result.
«What if Maduro doesn’t like the second elections? Shall we go to a third? Will you accept it in your countries? We went to elections with the rules of tyranny. Proposing new elections is a lack of respect for Venezuelans», responded María Corina Machado in a virtual press conference with Argentine and Chilean media.
Colombia and Mexico
For his part, Gustavo Pietro confronts his Venezuelan ally directly for the first time: «A political solution so that Venezuela brings peace and prosperity to its people.» The Colombian president evoked the experience of the National Front in his country, which in his opinion «used temporarily can help reach a definitive solution».
Petro refers to the historical moment in which liberals and conservatives joined together, even with a mixed government, to get out of the dictatorship and ensure democracy.
In his roadmap for Venezuela, published on his social networks, Petro places as the first point the revocation of all sanctions and one amnesty general inside and outside the oil country. He then insists on the need to have all the guarantees for a political action that gives way to a government of temporary cohabitation and new free elections, in line with what Lula da Silva stated.
The Mexican was the one who decided to definitively distance himself from the mediation Lopez Obrador. «I don’t think it’s wise, let’s see what the court decides,» added the Aztec president. Mexico had already bet days ago support the exit invented by Chavismo To get out of the quagmire: let a Supreme Court decide, whose sentences are ordered by the Miraflores Palace.