Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has rejected comments from leaders in the United States and Brazil about holding new elections in the country.
“I absolutely reject that the United States is trying to become the electoral authority of Venezuela,” Maduro said on Venezuelan state television.
“Biden gave an interventionist opinion on Venezuela’s internal issues. Half an hour later they denied it,” he added.
The White House had corrected US President Joe Biden’s statement that he supports a new election in Venezuela.
A National Security Council spokesman said Biden was “talking about the absurdity of Maduro and his proxies not revealing the truth about the July 28 elections,” without fully walking back Biden’s comment.
The US president’s comments came after Brazil called for a new vote, two weeks after Nicolás Maduro claimed re-election victory in a race cast into doubt by Western nations.
Asked if he supports a new election in Venezuela, Biden said “yes.”
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has ruled out the possibility of holding a new election, amid an ongoing electoral dispute and after President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva floated the idea.
“The election has already happened,” Machado told reporters in Argentina and Chile. “Maduro needs to know that the cost of his stay increases with each passing day,” she added.
Venezuela’s electoral authority proclaimed that Maduro had won 51% of the vote, but has not released a full vote count.
Opposition tallies, published on a public website, show Gonzalez received 67% of the vote.
Source: CNN Brasil
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