EIn Caracas, protesters began arriving at the call point well in advance of the scheduled time, with flags, banners and copies of voting records, as requested by opposition leader María Corina Machado through social media since Tuesday.
Thousands of people also took to the streets in the country’s main cities, responding to the request of Machado and González Urrutia, who urged Venezuelans to take to the streets accompanied by their families, with the national flag and the voting minutes, which ensure that they endorse Urrutia’s victory in the presidential elections.
Copies of the minutes have become a symbol of the largest opposition coalition, which claims to have collected “83.5%” of these documents.
Through a video on the social network X (formerly Twitter), Edmundo González Urrutia asked Venezuelans abroad to be “the voice of millions” of those “who try to silence” with “persecution, arrests, murders and censorship”, so that “the cry for change in peace goes around the world”.
“We have the votes, we have the records and we have shown the world that we won. We are working tirelessly so that they can return to a Venezuela of progress and well-being,” said the opposition candidate, quoted by the Efe news agency, who called on Venezuelans to remain “firm”.
Abroad, demonstrations were called in more than 350 cities around the world, both in America and on the rest of the continents, where protesters showed signs to also demand the freedom of those detained, including the journalist and member of the national communications team of the Vente Venezuela Party, Gabriel González, who was arrested two months ago.
Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, dressed in her traditional white blouse and perched on the platform of a truck, was greeted by thousands of protesters, Agence France-Presse reported.
“Freedom” and “Edmundo for everyone” were chanted in the crowd upon arrival by the opposition candidate, who has not been seen in public since July 30.
Meanwhile, Nicolás Maduro’s party has also called for a march across the country today to celebrate what it considers to be the “victory of the Bolivarian revolution” in the presidential elections, despite several foreign governments and groups of observers who participated in the elections questioning the results announced by the National Electoral Council (CNE).
According to state channel VTV, a motorized caravan, which left from eastern Caracas, is heading towards the Miraflores Palace, the seat of the Presidency, in the west of the city.
During the ride, several motorcyclists expressed their support for Maduro in defense of the “homeland” and against “violence”, while others criticized the opposition.
In a note from VTV, the representative of the Caracas Motorized Front, Abraham Gallardo, estimated the presence of “more than 10 thousand motorized vehicles”, which left from the east of Caracas to “bring peace and tranquility to all Venezuelans”.
The CNE ratified Maduro’s victory in early August with 52% of the votes, without providing the exact count or the minutes of the polling stations, claiming to have been the victim of computer hacking.
The opposition and many observers cast doubt on the reality of this cyber attack.
According to the opposition, which made public the electoral documents obtained thanks to its members at the polling stations, Edmundo González Urrutia, who replaced Maria Corina Machado, who was declared ineligible, obtained 67% of the votes.
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