Capriles still defiant on eve of Venezuela vote recount [View all]

[Catherina]

Capriles still defiant on eve of Venezuela vote recount

by Agence France-Presse
Posted on 04/29/2013 7:43 AM | Updated 04/29/2013 7:44 AM

CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles vowed Sunday, April 28, to "take to the world" his challenge of this month's presidential vote, as election officials readied a partial ballot recount.

Capriles, who says he should have been declared the winner of the April 14 presidential vote, alleged via his Twitter account that election authorities rejected his appeal for a full recount "at the order of the Socialist Party" that governs Venezuela.

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Venezuela's National Electoral Board has said that a full vote recount is legally impossible, but Capriles rejects anything less as insufficient, and vowed in a tweet that "sooner or later, there will be new elections."

A group of opposition lawmakers who back Capriles's challenge said they too would continue to draw attention to the case, including launching appeals at regional bodies like Mercosur and Unasur.

"We will go to all the (global) organizations, so that the whole world knows that Henrique Capriles Radonski won the elections in Venezuela," said opposition lawmaker Ismael Garcia.

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http://www.rappler.com/world/27753-venezuela-capriles-vote-recount

Phone calls between members of the opposition show they are conscious that they lost the election. In the video below, Dr. Luis Ugueto Arizmendi, an engineer, economist and former Minister of the Finance, "one of the closest advisers to Henrique Capriles, who takes part in meetings that happens every Monday in a place they call "La Peña", recognizes that Capriles lost election.

Translation of conversations here: http://www.rappler.com/world/27753-venezuela-capriles-vote-recount