Capriles refuses to recognize the election results

[Catherina]

6. Short version

Refuse to recognize the results, cause civil unrest so the US can move in to prevent "unrest" south of its border. I'll try to find it for you tomorrow.

This will have to do for tonight.


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Faced with imminent defeat, some in the opposition seem intent on repeating the old tricks of discrediting or sabotaging the electoral system to justify their defeats.

There have been weeks of opposition and attacks from the private Venezuelan media on the independent National Electoral Council, which oversees all electoral processes. Earlier this week Capriles said that he would not sign a National Electoral Council document to guarantee that he would recognise the results.

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Further evidence includes an audio recording of a phone conversation leaked to the public in which Capriles's bodyguard and driver said that Capriles wouldn't recognise Sunday's results if he loses.

Fears that the ground is being prepared for the non-acceptance of the results were heightened by remarks from US Assistant Secretary of State Roberta Jackson, who claimed last week that it was "difficult" to have "open, fair and transparent elections" in Venezuela.

For the right-wing opposition and the US, these allegations are just a fig leaf of an excuse to explain an impending defeat and to seek to deny the Maduro government legitimacy in the international arena.

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Washington appears involved in this campaign too, as shown by a recent email from Amando Briquet of Capriles's campaign team saying: "We need everything set out in Washington for checking over … It's necessary that all documentation is presented internationally if we decide to take the road of not recognising the results."

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http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/news/content/view/full/131649