Biden meets exiled Venezuelan opposition leader

US President Joe Biden described exiled Venezuelan opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez as the “real winner” in the country’s presidential elections last July after meeting with him at the White House.

In a job On social mediaBiden said Venezuela deserves a “peaceful transfer of power.”

Gonzalez He fled to Spain in September Following the post-election unrest in Venezuela, in which incumbent President Nicolas Maduro declared victory – something Gonzalez and many sectors of the international community objected to.

Caracas responded to the meeting angrily, describing it as “ugly” and accusing Biden of supporting a violent anti-democratic project, Reuters reported.

Maduro is scheduled to be re-inaugurated on Friday.

Gonzalez, who is currently in exile in Spain, says that the presidential elections that took place in July were fraudulent, and he says he actually won them.

The opposition has called for mass protests this week, while Maduro’s government has offered a reward of $100,000 (£81,000) for information leading to Gonzalez’s arrest.

The tally – a detailed official breakdown of votes from each polling station – was at the heart of the dispute over who won the election.

The National Electoral Council, allied with the government, declared Maduro the winner but failed to provide numbers to support his claim.

The opposition, which collected and published, with the help of certified election witnesses, more than 80% of the vote numbers, says that these results prove that Gonzalez was the overwhelming winner.

United Nations Human Rights Committee In December I ordered Venezuela “To refrain from destroying” the voting results in the July elections.