President Javier Milei He said this Friday that Argentina Support the Venezuelans “in this fight for freedom”, in a message sent to the opposition leader Maria Corina Machado Two days before the presidential elections in Venezuela.
Argentina also expressed its desire that Venezuela “respect” the right to vote of its citizens and repudiated “thethe regime’s decision to prevent it” former Argentine President Alberto Fernández (2019-2023) for his participation as an observer of the elections, in the words of presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni.
Machado wrote on his X network account that he had a conversation with Milei, who is in Paris to attend the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Games.
“I had a pleasant conversation today with Javier Milei, President of Argentina, whom I thanked for the support and commitment of his government and the political team of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs during these difficult months for Venezuelans and for our people in the campaign teams.”wrote Machado.
The Argentine president also responded to Machado on X and said: “We will always be with the Venezuelan people in this fight for freedom.”
Earlier, Adorni had expressed his desire that ““On Sunday, the right to vote will be respected in Venezuela.”
“We understand that Venezuelans are getting closer to regaining full democracy,” he said at a press conference.
He also expressed his “stupor and dismay at the regime’s decision to prevent former President Alberto Fernández from participating as an international observer of the electoral process.”
Fernández said on Wednesday that the Venezuelan government asked him not to travel to participate in the mission of international observers of the elections in that country because he had “doubts about (his) impartiality.”
“He was denied entry into the country just for saying that if the government is eventually defeated, it must accept the popular verdict,” Adorni considered.
Venezuelan elections will be held on Sunday, in which Nicolás Maduro, the ruling Chavista candidate, finds his main rival in Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia.
Urrutia has the support of María Corina Machado, the favourite in the polls but politically disqualified by a government agency from holding public office
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Source: Gestion
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