Venezuelan Dictator Nicolas Maduro has been confronted with new bipartisan Congressional criticism for refusing to accept the recent presidential election’s results.
US Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) led a bipartisan statement along with other legislators condemning Dictator Maduro’s dismissal of the Venezuelan opposition’s electoral victory over him.
Senator Rubio and colleagues criticized Maduro’s fraudulent acts and dismissed the Maduro-picked Venezuelan Supreme Court’s certification of the unreleased official ballot records.
“Dictator Maduro and his enablers at the discredited Supreme Tribunal of Justice are, as expected, opting to validate a massive fraud,” said Rubio. “Every single democracy in the world has a moral duty to stand up against this aggression.”
The US State Department has classified the Venezuelan court’s ruling as lacking “all credibility.”
“Now is the time for the Venezuelan parties to begin discussions on a respectful, peaceful transition in accordance with Venezuelan electoral law,” read the State Department’s statement.
Venezuela’s elections follow failed negotiations between Venezuela’s government and President Joe Biden’s administration over electoral assurances in exchange for sanctions relief.
Despite promises of allowing free and fair elections, the Venezuelan regime barred opposition leader Maria Corina Machado from participating in the same.
However, Machado invested her political capital into former Venezuelan Ambassador Edmundo Gonzalez, who subsequently won the presidential elections.
Machado claims Gonzalez defeated Maduro by a landslide, claims which have been verified by numerous watchdog international organizations and countries.
Meanwhile, Maduro’s latest public appearances seem as defiant as ever, saying to the US “he will not be their slave.”
Maduro has fiercely persecuted his political opposition, even arbitrarily arresting opposition party leaders days before the presidential elections.
Maduro threatened prior to the elections that if he was defeated, “Venezuela would turn into a bloodbath.”
