Rio de Janeiro (EFE).- Former Foreign Minister Celso Amorim, Brazilian President's International Adviser Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, met with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, who told him that he would provide him with “(electoral) minutes in the coming days”, according to diplomatic sources cited by O Globo newspaper. .
The meeting, attended by official Jorge Rodríguez, president of the National Assembly (AN, Parliament), took place at the Miraflores presidential palace and took place “in a good atmosphere,” according to a Rio newspaper.
According to the press release, Maduro also told Lula's adviser that his government was at risk of a “coup by the extreme right,” as he denounced hours earlier at the National Electoral Council (CNE).
Brazil wants to secure Maduro's election with CNE minutes
Brazil emphasized the importance of electoral transparency through an official statement by its Foreign Ministry, which stated that “the principle of popular sovereignty must be observed through the impartial verification of results.”
The note points out that this last requirement is “an indispensable step towards the transparency, credibility and legitimacy of the outcome of an electoral dispute”.
In the statement, Lula's government insisted that it would only pronounce on the victory declared by election officials for Maduro once all the results were known.
Amorim, who has been in Caracas since Friday as an observer of Brazil, said ahead of his meeting with Maduro that he was “embarrassed” by the lack of “transparency” of the process.
“I don't doubt what's being said, but the (Venezuelan) government said it would provide all the minutes” from which Maduro's victory resulted, and “it hasn't happened yet,” said Amorim, who is in Venezuela. capital until at least Tuesday.
The consultant is scheduled to meet with Maria Corina Machado this Monday.
The results were published by the CNE
The National Electoral Council (CNE) officially declared Maduro president after announcing the same result Sunday night when Chavista, who has been in power since 2013, won 80% of the vote and had more than two million votes left to count.
Meanwhile, Edmundo González Urrutia won 44.2% of the vote, according to the CNE's first and only public report, which did not specify which candidates the 2,394,268 unrecorded votes went to.
Thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets of Caracas and other parts of the country this Monday to protest the results announced by the CNE, many of which have been subject to military crackdowns.
