Throughout his go to to Panamá on Wednesday, Venezuelan opposition chief Edmundo González Urrutia offered the voting tallies from the disputed July 28, 2024 election to Javier Martínez-Acha, Panama’s Overseas Affairs Minister.
These voting tallies, referred to as “actas”, exhibit González Urrutia’s victory within the presidential election with 67% of the vote will now be underneath the custody of the Panamanian authorities.
The day of the July election, the opposition organized 1000’s of ballot watchers in grassroots teams referred to as “comanditos” and so they have been capable of collect over 85% of precinct-level tally sheets. The overall votes for every presidential candidate are recorded in these receipt-like paperwork printed by each voting machine within the nation.
The administration-allied Nationwide Electoral Council (CNE) claims that incumbent President Nicolás Maduro received re-election with 51.95% of the vote. To today, they’ve failed to supply any detailed precinct-level outcomes.
“These “actas” are my true tri-colored flag, given to me by the folks,” González Urrutia said whereas presenting the paperwork on the Atalpa conference heart in Panamá Metropolis.
Opposition chief María Corina Machado mentioned on X that “the ‘actas’ of fact, which specific the favored sovereignty and the choice of the Venezuelan folks for change, have arrived in Panamá.”
Machado, who has largely been in hiding since August 28, expressed that this established an “indelible historic bond” between the folks of Panamá and Venezuela.
The supply of the voting tallies was additionally recorded in a document signed by González Urrutia and Martínez-Acha, who signed on behalf of Panamanian President Jose Raúl Mulino.
The doc stated: “The official ‘actas’ acquired right this moment by the federal government of Panamá for safekeeping not solely embody the testimony of the sovereign will of the Venezuelan folks, who by means of their well-liked vote evidenced and ratified their agency willpower to dwell in freedom and democracy. In addition they replicate the extraordinary diploma of citizen group required to beat all of the arbitrariness imposed by a tyrannical regime that all the time sought to adulterate the elections.”
González Urrutia launched into an international tour within the run as much as January 10, the day which according to the Venezuelan Structure a brand new elected president should take workplace.
The retired diplomat fled into exile in Spain in September after a choose issued an arrest warrant following the July election.
His tour started in Argentina on January 4, the place he was recieved by Argentinian President Javier Millei on the home of presidency, the Casa Rosada.
González Urrutia additionally met with Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou and on Monday, he met with President Joe Biden in Washington. This morning, he arrived at his final cease within the Dominican Republic.
González Urrutia reportedly plans to go away the Dominican Republic to return to Venezuela and assume the presidency on January 10, regardless of the Maduro regime asserting a USD $100,000 reward for his seize. Up to now few days, “Needed” posters with González Urrutia’s face started being plastered on screens and billboards in Caracas and within the Simón Bolívar Worldwide Airport in Maiquetía, situated within the capital’s outskirts.
9 former Latin American and Spanish presidents are set to accompany the president-elect in his return to Venezuela.
