Venezuela’s dictator, Nicolás Maduro, said this Sunday (28) that the members of the European Union (EU) observation mission that followed the country’s municipal and state elections last week were spies for the community bloc.
“A delegation of spies. They were not international observers. They roamed the country, freely, spying on the country’s social, economic and political life,” said the head of government, during a speech on the local television station VTV.
Maduro classified as “enemies” the election observers of the European Union and assured that they delivered a report “full of improvisation and poorly written”.
“They didn’t find any element to criticize the electoral system. They sought and tried to tarnish Venezuela’s impeccable and democratic electoral process, and they didn’t succeed,” said the dictator.
Maduro went further and argued that the municipal and state elections, which took place the previous Sunday, were “transparent, reliable, fair, safe and free”, and that “Chavismo destroyed the popular vote”, which would show “the power of the movement revolutionary Bolivarian”.
The United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), of which the dictator is a part, managed to win the elections in 90% of the states and 63% of the mayors, but Maduro also remembered the defeats.
“It must also be said that the oppositions occupied their space. They got a good number of state and city governments. I believe the opposition did well and that, for me, is good. For us, it’s good”, he said.
The preliminary report presented by Portuguese MEP Isabel Santos last week cited delivery of goods and favorable approach to Maduro’s party in state media, as well as decisions by the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) to intervene in several of the main opposition parties, whose acronyms , colors and names were given to militants expelled by their former comrades and accused of corruption.
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