Criticism of the Government for not voting on the OAS resolution on Venezuela

Insufficient votes

At an extraordinary session of the OAS held in Washington, the resolution received 17 votes in favor, none against, 11 abstentions (including those of Colombia, Brazil and Mexico) and five absences, so it did not obtain the support of the absolute majority of the members of the Pan-American organization necessary for its approval.

The text urged the National Electoral Council (CNE) of Venezuela, which early Monday morning proclaimed the victory of President Nicolás Maduro in results rejected by the opposition and part of the international community, to “immediately publish the results of the vote” at each polling station.

It also calls for “comprehensive verification of the results in the presence of independent observer organisations to ensure the transparency, credibility and legitimacy of the results.”

In this regard, the former mayor of Bogotá, Claudia López, from the Alianza Verde party, stated that “it is not coherent that the president and the foreign minister of Colombia (Luis Gilberto Murillo) say one thing and do another.”

“They say on social media that they are asking the Venezuelan government for transparency, guarantees and publication of the electoral records, and they refuse to vote for an OAS resolution that asks for the same thing. Ambiguity is complicity with electoral fraud and an anti-democratic regime that is currently repressing and killing its citizens,” he added.

Senator María Fernanda Cabal, from the right-wing Centro Democrático party, said that the Petro government’s attitude towards the OAS is “disgraceful.”

“While they remain silent and make statements to distract, they abstain from supporting or denying the resolution that calls on Maduro to immediately publish the results of the votes at the level of each electoral table. The truth is that Petro supports the genocidal Maduro,” added the Uribe congresswoman.