What did Diosdado Cabello say on August 9th, 2024?

Published at: 09/08/2024 05:21 PM

This Friday, August 09, the first vice-president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello Rondón, went to the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) to appear, together with representatives of the parties of the Great Patriotic Pole (GPP), for the electoral dispute over the results of the July 28 elections.

Regarding the instruments requested by the Supreme Court, he indicated:

• “The PSUV and fellow spokespersons of the GPP have delivered all the documents requested by the highest court of the Electoral Chamber, a list of witnesses, everything they have asked of us.
• “It's basically the information that all the parties that participated in that election should be providing.”

Regarding the issues of the minutes, Cabello reiterated that in Venezuela they have never been published. In addition, he mentioned the fraud published by the extreme right.

• “Here are the results, if I have any problems with a result I submit my minutes to prove (...) This is the way the laws are in Venezuela.”
• The Venezuelan legal framework covers the entire electoral process, “everything is detailed here, so detailed that sometimes you say: For God's sake if it's here why don't they do it”.
• “The opposition has not published the minutes (...) the opposition posted on a fraudulent page assuming responsibilities that are the direct competence of the CNE (National Electoral Council) some documents that they say are records that have no witness signature, no identity card, no fingerprints, no operator; it is a fraudulent act”.

He also referred to the alleged negotiation proposed by the extreme right wing María Corina Machado.

• “Mrs. María Corina Machado is not in a position to negotiate anything (...) she is not a candidate or anything to set conditions”.
• She must be held accountable to justice for the call “to violence, for paying people to destroy education centers, health centers, public transport vehicles, ambulances and persecution of Chavism leaders. What she gets is an investigation!”

In the same way, he condemned the interference of countries such as Chile and Argentina in the internal affairs of Venezuela.

• “In Venezuela they don't make the elections (Gabriel Boric and Javier Milei), in Venezuela the elections are made by the CNE, we have times asking for respect from these gentlemen (...) Mr. Boric or Milei don't have the slightest moral authority to give his opinion on Venezuela's internal affairs or on the electoral result.”
• They are low-level spokespersons for imperialism, but they still use them to “meddle in the internal affairs of neighboring countries.”
• “We don't know what lies they are based on or on what conditions they come to recognize or say that they cheated in Venezuela; but in truth Chile's biggest trap is to continue to govern with Pinochet's Constitution, it's a historic trap that Chileans should correct, but we don't meddle in their internal affairs.”
• “You can expect anything from Milei, just as today he says he recognizes another president, tomorrow he says he recognizes the Bolivarian Government if it interests him.”
• “Conclusion, don't meddle in the internal affairs of Venezuela, Venezuela wants peace, to live in peace and tranquility and that's what we Venezuelans decide.”

Mazo News Team