President-elect of Uruguay does not rule out Maduro taking office

The elected president of Uruguay, Yamandú Orsi, has not ruled out inviting Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro to his inauguration on March 1, 2025.

According to information from the Reuters agency, Orsi said at a press conference on Wednesday (27) in Montevideo that “relations are between States, not between presidents”.

“We will have to see, there is still time. I hope everything is resolved so that all countries are invited (to the inauguration)”, he added.

Orsi, from the leftist Broad Front, said during the campaign that “Venezuela is a dictatorship” and also questioned the fairness of the July election in the Caribbean country, which was rigged to keep Maduro in power, but parties within his coalition disagreed with him.

The National Liberation Movement, a party that emerged from the Tupamaros guerrilla group, called the Venezuelan fraud an “exemplary electoral act,” while Communist Party leader Rony Corbo said in an interview with Rádio Carve that Maduro’s “victory” was “ legitimate.”

The current president of Uruguay, the conservative Luis Lacalle Pou, believes that the oppositionist Edmundo González won the Venezuelan presidential election.

His supporter and presidential candidate defeated last Sunday (24) by Orsi, Álvaro Delgado, had stated that he would invite González to his inauguration if he were elected.

The Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), González’s coalition, stated on Monday (25) in X that it hopes that the future Orsi government will help to “consolidate the peaceful transition” in Venezuela and that “Venezuelans continue to fight for freedom and for true democracy in our country.”