Canada He said this Thursday that he “recognizes” that the opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia He won the Venezuelan presidential elections on July 28 and is the elected president of the South American country.
Canada’s Foreign Minister, Mélanie Joly, revealed in a message published on the social network X that on Wednesday she spoke with opposition leader María Corina Machado “to discuss the situation in Venezuela.”
During the conversation, Joly “reiterated Canada’s support for all those fighting so that the will of Venezuelans is respected.”
Joly added: “Canada recognizes that Edmundo González Urrutia won the July 28 elections and he is the elected president of Venezuela.”
The conversation between Joly and Machado and Canada’s statement in support of González Urrutia occurs one day before Nicolás Maduro assumes a new term as Venezuelan president amid allegations of fraud by the opposition after the July 28 elections. .
On December 17, Canada sanctioned the president of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) of Venezuela, Caryslia Rodríguez Rodríguez, as well as four other senior officials of the country for “undermining Venezuelan democracy” in relation to their actions against the opposition to the Maduro Government.