Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro denounces Smartmatic CEO Antonio Mugica and claims that the United States government pressured the company to make its claims about constitutent assembly election turnout, the Guardian reports.
“That stupid guy, the president of Smartmatic, pressured to the neck by the gringos and the Brits, said there were 7.5 million [voters],” Maduro said on Venezuelan TV, as reported by the Guardian. “I think there were 10 million Venezuelans who went out.”
Maduro’s comment reveals splits in his own “Chavista” or Hugo Chavez-following camp.
“In a rare display of criticism from a veteran Chavista, Andrés Izarra, a former information minister under Maduro’s predecessor, Hugo Chávez, tweeted: ‘Company which supports Venezuelan electoral system confirms that election was manipulated by at least a million votes,'” according to the Guardian.
“His tweet quickly went viral. In a follow-up tweet, Izarra said he recognised there were “doubts that must be cleared up about the results of Sunday’s election” but warned the opposition that he had not become one of them. ‘Squallid [sic] ones, don’t count on me EVER,’ he tweeted.”
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1. Venezuela-president-says-smartmatic-bowing-to-us-in-turnout-
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMLzGkKafU8
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