Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has been greeted by thousands of protesters in Caracas.
Thousands of anti-Chavistas protested this Saturday in several cities in Venezuela, such as Anaco, Cagua, Maracay, Valencia, Cumaná, Barinas and Maracaibo, against the results of the elections presented by the National Electoral Council (CNE), according to which President Nicolás Maduro was re-elected.
The protests, called by the main opposition coalition, the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), have developed normally and without notable incidents in most cities, with a few exceptions.
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has been greeted by thousands of protesters in Caracas after she declared she fears for her life.
Machado has advocated maintaining a “peaceful and civil” struggle with “force,” as, he said, the July 28 elections marked a “milestone” where the “transition to democracy” began in the Caribbean country.
Machado has stressed the strength of citizens who took to the streets despite the repression against the demonstrations that took place between Monday and Tuesday, rejecting the official election results.
This is the second large-scale demonstration held at the request of the majority opposition, which claims that its presidential candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, won the election by a large margin.
Chavismo maintains that the documentation made available to citizens by the opposition is not real, while the National Electoral Council has not made public the minutes which, it assures, it will hand over to the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) if requested.
Source: EITB
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