The European Union will not recognize Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s election victory until all ballots are counted and accounted for, confirmed by the bloc’s foreign policy chief.
European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell confirmed days after the Venezuelan Presidential election that the bloc could not recognize the outcome.
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Validate Outcome
The European Union will only recognize an Venezuelan election result after all votes are counted and records made available to adequately validate outcome.
International criticism has began to increase globally over Venezuela’s election result that handed incumbent President Nicolas Maduro a highly disputed narrow margin of victory.
Protesters have filled the streets of the volatile country since the election outcome.
Demonstrations in some areas of Venezuela have turned violent as riot police clashed with protesters in the capital Caracas.
Other cities in the South American nation saw protests with least 11 dead in connection with the protests while hundreds more arrested.
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Different Results
Borrell confirmed the electoral commission had announced the result of the vote based on more than three quarters of the ballots counted.
The Venezuelan opposition had published very different results from their preliminary vote count indicating there may be election fraud.
“That is an additional reason for not recognizing the results until they will be fully and independently verified,” the EU Foreign Policy Chief told Vietnam media.
The members of the 27-nation bloc will decide on possible next steps only after the full election results are made available once every vote card is accounted for, he reaffirmed.
Increasing Tensions
UN Human Rights chief Volker Türk said after the election result stating Maduro had won, that he was “extremely concerned about increasing tensions in Venezuela, with worrying reports of violence.”
The election failed to meet “international standards of electoral integrity” and could not be “considered democratic” according to The Carter Center, a US-based nonprofit organization meant to monitor election integrity.
The White House also made public statements that “Any political repression or violence against protesters or the opposition is obviously unacceptable.”
Opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia announced that his campaign had the proof it needed to show an election victory.
Clear Winner
Gonzalez and opposition leader Maria Corina Machado told reporters that they obtained more than 70% of tally sheets indicating a clear winner.
The results obtained by the opposition group show that Gonzalez had won more than double the number of Maduro’s votes.
If the vote count tally indicated by the opposition is correct, this could imply one of the largest scandals in recent South American election history.
After President Hugo Chávez’s death was announced on 5 March 2013, Maduro assumed the presidency and has not relinquished power ever since.
