The Spanish Government demands the records in Venezuela after the “knock-on” of Santo Domingo

The Spanish Government expressed its confidence this Saturday that the Declaration of Santo Domingo to request the publication of the electoral records in Venezuela It is a “wake-up call” to the Government of Nicolas Maduro and insisted on asking the Venezuelan leader for “transparency.”

The Spanish Minister of Defense, Margarita Roblesexpressed his wish that the declaration be a “wake-up call”and said that “Venezuela needs, requires and demands that there be a democratic process with complete clarity and transparency.”

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Twenty-two countries, including Spain, the United States and the European Unionrequested this Friday the “immediate publication of all original minutes” of the elections of July 28 in Venezuela and the “impartial and independent” verification of the results of those elections, in which the National Electoral Council declared the winner to Ripe amid doubts about the clarity of the process.

For Oakswhat happens in Venezuela “It is something that should concern us all” because if “It is said that the process is democratic,” that the minutes are being hidden, as the Maduro government is doing, he stressed, “it is absolutely worrying.”

“The position of Spain has always been very clear in asking for transparency” and in its “leading role in the international community”Robles has remarked, who has emphasized the Spanish presence and USA among the signatories.

The Minister of Science and Universities joined this call for transparency, Diana Morantwho also asked the Executive of Nicolas Maduro not to use violence against the demonstrations of its political opponents and to have “a peaceful and serene response and, above all, one that guarantees the democratic results of the last elections and publish transparently the minutes of all the polling stations.”

Morant recalled that “Spain has positioned itself on the side of democratic guarantee, which demanded from the first moment to know all the minutes and the electoral result with rigor and was one of the first signatories of the Declaration of Santo Domingo”.

The minister then criticised the position of the Spanish opposition party, the conservative People’s Party: “I believe that the suffering that the country is currently experiencing cannot be used in a partisan way.” Venezuelan people in the face of this uncertainty.”