María Corina Machado and Edmundo González urge table witnesses to defend the votes: “These are decisive hours”

One and a half hour after the voting ended… Maria Corina Machado and Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia He held a press conference for the media to inform them about election day in Venezuela.

Opposition leaders reiterated their appeal to polling station witnesses to remain at voting stations to protect their votes.

“Witnesses should remain at the centres until they receive the minutes containing the results from the polling stations,” the presidential candidate said.

For her part, the leader of Vente Venezuela asked all witnesses to be “vigilant”: “We have fought for this day for so many years. These are crucial minutes, crucial hours.”

“We need everybody to be present at their polling stations with witnesses,” he said.

Similarly, María Corina Machado, who is disqualified from holding public office due to a measure imposed by the Maduro dictatorship, said that her campaign team and that of Edmundo González are already receiving the minutes: “We are updating them one by one.”

“It has been a heroic civic day. “We have fought and worked for this moment”the opposition leader said.

“We are very happy with the results that we expected,” the former ambassador admitted. However, neither of them spoke about the numbers. In fact, earlier the opposition candidate had denounced the dissemination of false data by Chavismo.

A few minutes later, Edmundo González repeated the call to witnesses through his social networks: “Venezuelans, let us remain calm in the polling stations, validating and defending vote by vote. We have the right to remain in the polling stations until they give the minutes that will validate the information we have. Let us defend and celebrate democracy in peace.”

An hour after the polls ended, the Democratic Unitary Platform denounced that its witnesses were not allowed to enter the National Electoral Council (CNE), where election data is processed. In the photos you can see how electoral officials prevent entry Delsa Solorzano, Juan Carlos Caldera, and Perkins Rocha.

After voting ended, the regime has not yet made any statement. The CNE waits until there is an irreversible trend to announce the results, and does not give partial reports. The electoral process is automated, with the results centralized by the CNE.

Chairman of the Council, Elvis Amorosohas previously called on citizens to wait for an official investigation and not pay attention to the results of surveys published on social networks. “No exit poll is true. Exit polls say what the person paying for them wants to hear. “That’s a private company,” he said.

In its final report, released just after 5:30 p.m. local time, María Corina Machado’s campaign command reported that national participation at 4 p.m. local time was 54.8%, equivalent to about 11.7 million Venezuelan voters. This figure is far higher than the figures recorded in previous elections held in the Caribbean country.

Amidst uncertainty and expectation of results, God-given hairVice President of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV)called on his Chavista followers to take to the streets and go to electoral centers. Cabello argued that the measure was necessary to defend the popular vote, while expectations were growing over the election’s outcome. National Electoral Council (CNE),

“Brothers and sisters, how are you? Look, once and for all, let’s not think about it anymore, let’s go to the streets, let’s go to the electoral centers, because they do not understand the causes, but the popular mobilization,” Cabello declared. “So Let’s go, Let’s go. He is unable to understand the reason behind people’s vote. that people came out to vote in large numbers, that there are certain results that the CNE is going to deliver and they know that those results are not in their favor and they’re going to try to incite violence. So let’s plan for before, during and after at once. Defend the vote. Embrace him with the people, with Bolívar, with Chavez, with Maduro. We will win,