Former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) called on the Venezuelan government to show the still unpublished records from Sunday’s presidential elections. While Nicolás Maduro has claimed that he won a new reelection, the opposition and numerous international observers have questioned the results.

Kirchner added that she shared “in full” the communiqué signed on August 1 by Brazilian and Mexican Presidents Lula Da Silva and Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), as well as Colombian President Gustavo Petro, demanding that the Maduro administration show polling station-level data.

“I call, not only on the Venezuelan people but also the opposition, for democracy and the very legacy of Hugo Chávez, for the voting records to be published,” Kirchner said in Mexico during the closing act of a dissertation on the political situation in Latin America. 

The former president was one of the few major center-left Latin American leaders who had not shared her opinion on the Venezuelan elections. Most of them have demanded the government show the voting records, as the head of the National Electoral Council (CNE, by its Spanish initials) only released the vote percentages each candidate had obtained.

Maduro has claimed that the delay in the record publication was because the country had been the victim of a “cyber attack.” Kirchner cast some doubts, however, arguing that there were other vote-gathering systems that allow to show results when technology is down.

“It is evident that if they were able to deliver such a meticulous vote count, with decimal points for each candidate, it is because there is a backup system,” she added.

Kirchner also said that Latin America should “keep conflicts away” from the region, pointing to the fact that Venezuela has the world’s largest oil reserves and reminding the audience that it is under a U.S.-sanctioned trade embargo.

CFK took the opportunity to comment on Argentine politics, saying that Peronism had always recognized voting results when it went to the polls while also taking a jab at deputies from ruling party La Libertad Avanza who visited dictatorship-era repressors.

“There are deputies who visit genocides of the 1976 dictatorship and take with them a draft bill to promote their release — these are the ones who talk about democracy and say that there is a dictatorship in Venezuela,” she added. “They are more than denialists; they want these people to be exempt from crimes against humanity.”