{"id":6468,"date":"2024-08-04T13:43:25","date_gmt":"2024-08-04T07:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=6468"},"modified":"2024-08-04T13:43:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T07:58:25","slug":"seven-eu-states-call-on-venezuela-to-publish-voting-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/seven-eu-states-call-on-venezuela-to-publish-voting-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven EU states call on Venezuela to publish voting records"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>The leaders of seven European Union states called on Venezuela Saturday to publish its voting records to show the &#8220;full transparency and integrity of the electoral process&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The statement, from France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and Spain expressed &#8220;strong concern&#8221; about the situation in the country following the contested presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>President Nicolas Maduro has claimed victory in last weekend&#8217;s vote, but the opposition has disputed the official result, claiming Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia won.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We call on the Venezuelan authorities to promptly publish all voting records,&#8221; read the statement from the seven countries&#8217; leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Such a step was necessary to &#8220;recognise the will of the Venezuelan people&#8221;, it added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The rights of all Venezuelans, especially political leaders, must be respected during this process.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We strongly condemn any arrest or threat against them,&#8221; the statement added, saying that authorities should respect the people&#8217;s &#8220;right to protest and assemble peacefully&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The statement came as thousands of Venezuelans gathered across the country to challenge Maduro&#8217;s claim he won the election.<\/p>\n<p>Eleven people have reportedly died and more than 1,000 have been detained in protests that erupted after the country&#8217;s CNE election authority, loyal to the president, ratified Maduro&#8217;s win on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>That result has already been rejected by countries including the United States and Latin American neighbours Argentina, Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador and Uruguay.<\/p>\n<p>They say available results show the opposition candidate Gonzalez Urrutia was the clear winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leaders of seven European Union states called on Venezuela Saturday to publish its voting records to show the &#8220;full transparency and integrity of the electoral process&#8221;. The statement, from France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and Spain expressed &#8220;strong concern&#8221; about the situation in the country following the contested presidential election. President Nicolas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6469,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6468\/revisions\/6469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}