04.08.2024, Caracas.
Supporters of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro celebrated their leader’s victory with a march, a motorcycle ride through the streets of Caracas and a rally at the Miraflores Palace, the official residence of the President of Venezuela, gathering thousands of supporters, said Diosdado Cabello, the First-Vice President of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), in an interview with a RIA Novosti correspondent on August 4.
“First and foremost, we are marching for peace, for victory, celebrating the great victory of July 28 with the people. Imperialism is like a deck of same old cards that constantly repeat themselves. Whenever there are any national elections where the left either wins or is about to win – imperialism immediately intervenes. In Venezuela, we have been resisting the attacks of imperialism and its cronies for 25 years,” Cabello noted.
Pedro Infante, the First Vice-speaker of the National Assembly, further claimed to the correspondent that Nicolas Maduro’s supporters are people of peace, love, consensus and dialogue. According to Infante, politics cannot be based on violence and result in the acts of marking the houses of public leaders, members of local communities and the socialist party, and then burning their houses and eliminating the revolution leaders.
A day after the presidential elections took place in Venezuela on July 28 and Nicolas Maduro became the winner, protests and clashes with the police of those who disagree with the election results erupted in the republic. As a result, over 250 police stations were burned, law enforcement officers recorded a large number of acts of vandalism and robbery. On July 31, the national leader told citizens that the police detained over 1.2 thousand violators accused of destroying the state’s infrastructure, inciting hatred and terrorism; another 1 thousand participants in the riots were put on the wanted list.
The Western countries reacted to the elections in Venezuela in the following way: the US authorities, at a time when the vote count had not yet been completed and the subsequent audit of the votes had not yet begun, appealed to the world community with a proposal to recognize the leader of the Venezuelan opposition Edmundo Gonzalez as the winner. Then, representatives of the US and EU parliaments, who deal with international relations, threatened the President of the Bolivarian Republic Nicolas Maduro that he would “be held accountable” for not voluntarily resigning from his post as head of state after the elections. Western countries’ representatives declared the results to have been falsified.
Earlier, the Russian government representatives said that the opposition should accept their defeat after the official results of the elections in Venezuela were announced. It was also reported that Jorge Rodriguez, the President of the National Assembly of Venezuela, has exposed the manipulations in the election protocols that were presented by the Venezuelan opposition.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
