Eight of 10 candidates in Venezuela’s upcoming presidential election, including President Nicolás Maduro, have signed an agreement binding them to respect the results of the contest as announced by electoral authorities.
Venezuela n President Nicolas Maduro, right, shakes hands with presidential candidate Javier Bertucci after a signing agreement ceremony to respect the results of the upcoming presidential elections, at the National Electoral Council headquarters in Caracas, Venezuela , Thursday, June 20, 2024.
“Now, it is the document of the electoral arbiter. Whatever the electoral arbiter says, amen,” Maduro told reporters after the signing ceremony. “I call on all Venezuelans to support this document and to respect the electoral arbiter, the National Electoral Council, and that its word be sacred.” The electoral body has long been stacked with allies of the ruling party who function as a tool of Maduro’s government, bending rules in favor of preferred candidates and blocking the participation of the opposition.
González in a statement said an “agreement can never be imposed unilaterally” and “must emerge from a respectful dialogue between the parties.” He said the government has already violated an agreement it entered into with the opposition coalition he represents, including by rescinding an invitation to the European Union to send a mission of electoral observers and by increasing ”the persecution against leaders and supporters of our campaign.
He said the agreement should state that the winner will “seek broad and sufficient guarantees of non-political persecution of any leader of any tendency or party, as well as of current or former officials in office at the time of the election.”
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