U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the United States has ‘serious concerns’ about the announced result of Venezuela’s hotly contested presidential election that authorities say was won by incumbent Nicolas Maduro.
Speaking in Tokyo on Monday shortly after the announcement was made, Blinken said the U.S. was concerned that the result reflected neither the will nor the votes of the Venezuelan people. He called for election officials to publish the full results transparently and immediately and said the U.S. and the international community would respond accordingly.
“None of
ourthe other candidates got any votes!”The opposition ran a bunch of far-right reactionary psychos and still crested 44% of the vote. That’s definitely indicative of how far Maduro has fallen in popularity, even after an economic rebound in the wake of COVID.
But when you run stupid candidates, you win stupid prizes. They tried to get another Jeanine Áñez white nationalist style lunatic into the President’s mansion and they flopped.