Two months after the controversial elections, Nicolas Maduro criticizes the departure of Edmundo Gonzalez and suggests without evidence that Maria Corina Machado will leave Venezuela.

(CNN Spanish) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Saturday criticized opposition presidential candidate Edmundo González Urrutia’s departure for Spain and suggested, without further clarification or evidence, that Maria Corina Machado might leave the country.

“And the cowardly Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia fled, left, surrendered, surrendered, abandoned his people,” Maduro said at an election event in which he celebrated the controversial presidential elections in which the National Electoral Council declared. winner. Two months have passed since the elections without the center and the polling station providing data to verify this supposed victory, amid allegations of fraud and calls from a large part of the international community to clarify what happened that day.

González Urrutia said he left Venezuela because of a series of threats and pressure from the government to sign a document in which he recognized the official results of the July 28 elections, which were later certified by the Supreme Court of Justice, which also obeys Chavismo. The government denies that it coerced Gonzalez.

At the official event to celebrate Maduro’s re-election on Saturday, the president also attacked the opposition, which called for marches around the world on Saturday, and Machado, who also said, without directly naming him, that he was preparing to leave Venezuela.

“Today I tell you, the supposed ‘Queen Bee’ has been left without bees,” the Venezuelan president said, regarding the type of protest organized by the opposition in Caracas and in several cities in the country, in which Machado did not personally participate. He attends. . A few days ago, the opposition leader said that she was “protected” in light of the wave of arrests that followed voting day.

“He is preparing his bags,” Maduro added. Maduro added: “And Sayona is preparing to leave,” referring to his opponent, whom he had previously likened on public occasions to a character from Venezuelan folklore.

As of Saturday, neither González Urrutia nor Machado had commented on the president’s statements, and CNN has already reached out to their communications teams for comment.

Machado had made it clear on Saturday in a recorded message played at opposition rallies that he had moved to the so-called “swarm” phase of protest, which he described as “brutal repression.” We have to continue to take care of ourselves and stay smartly organized.

On Saturday, the CNN team noted that this type of demonstration includes groups of between 10 and 20 people who gathered to protest in public or private places, where the minutes published by the opposition about the elections were read aloud, and this would indicate victory. For Gonzalez Urrutia. Venezuelan authorities say these records are false, although they have not been able to refute the data with their own numbers.

“Our citizen protest is evolving so that it has the least danger to the people and the maximum impact on our goal, which is freedom,” Machado noted in the letter.

After July 28, Maduro’s government arrested more than 2,000 people, including many minors, in mass protests against the election results that declared him the winner. At the time, the government said – without evidence – that those detained were people who were part of an initiative to destabilize the country supported by foreign powers.

Several international missions, such as the UN mission, have determined that the repression ordered by the Venezuelan executive could constitute “crimes against humanity,” claims the government has rejected.

This week, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Ivan Gil defended the results announced by the National Electoral Commission on July 28 before the UN General Assembly. Many heads of state and government who participated in this year’s session openly criticized the Venezuelan government, saying that it is in fact a dictatorial government.

Osmari Hernandez contributed to this report