Internal political conflict Venezuelan It was reactivated when things seemed to be going well following the Barbados agreements between Madurismo and its rivals. “The one who raises disqualification now he says this What happened on Sunday had no value. And you have to listen to people,” said María Corina Machado. winner of the primaries The overwhelming majority of the Venezuelan opposition. This is exactly what the government thought: this mechanism was used to determine the common candidate it should face. Nicolas Maduro There are shortcomings in the 2024 presidential elections legitimacy. Maduro spoke “fake”. His wife, Cilia Flores, the “first warrior”, echoed the same disdainfully. Your number two God gave me hairHe warned that “Corina will not participate in the elections” due to the sanction imposed on her by the Financial Affairs Office until 2030.
Speaker of the National Assembly (AN), Jorge RodríguezHe described the National Primary Commission (CNP) and particularly Súmate, the organization dedicated to observing elections, which he linked to the winner of the contest, as “scammers”. Rodríguez, at least Representative of the Miraflores Palace in negotiations with the oppositionHe told me about what happened last Sunday.”This wasn’t a choice.“but it is an attempt by the United States to plunge the country into anxiety, unrest and the search for more sanctions.” He called CNP official Jesús María Casal a “barbarian” and a “thief.” “What they did on Sunday is despicable.”
According to Rodríguez, the primary election was “self-declaration“compared it to the deputy’s January 2019 episodes.” Juan Guaidó With the support of the Donald Trump administration, he declared himself the “interim president” of Venezuela.
New dark clouds on the horizon
Machado responded immediately. “There has never been an election where citizens have scrutinized more like Sunday’s. This was a citizenship process, certainly a civil process. Minutes are photographed. So anyone who is there and counting the votes can compare it to the digitized database that the Primary Commission has. “So they can’t even fool their own people because their people (madurismo) also came out to vote.”
Thus, approaching threats are stopped once again. “We will immediately request that the Barbados treaty verification commission, comprised of Dr. Gerardo Blyde and myself, be convened to consider this situation.” he announced. Referring to the fourth article of the agreement, Rodríguez said, election guarantees Tasks common to all voting processes. He implied that the primary violated this requirement by dispensing with the National Electoral Council (CNE). He emphasized that the organization “has the special authority to hold elections to prevent four fraudsters from coming and stealing them.”
Moreover questioned the number of participants The number of CNP primaries: two million. Both Rodríguez and Cabello assured that fewer than 600,000 Venezuelans voted. Anything other than that is “unsustainable”. The aim, according to analysts, is to legitimize the victory of Machado, a leader who expresses the most radical positions of the opposition and whose party, Vente Venezuela, was not involved in the negotiations that reached the agreement with the Miraflores Palace. Point of understanding in Barbados.
Winner’s defense
“To the spokespeople of the Red Dome. Like it or not, many people came out to vote all over Venezuela on Sunday. From all sectors. Understand that you lost touch with the Venezuelan people a long time ago and that’s all you have today is power and they “They are using this not to solve serious problems affecting the majority, but simply to defend their own privileges. Accept the truth,” he said. Henrique Caprileswho decided not to compete weeks before the primary.
Rodríguez declared that negotiations with opposition parties did not end in failure. He said the government’s will was “firm” and cast doubt on rivals who recognized Machado’s victory on Sunday. The USA also did this in an elliptical form; The decision to lift economic sanctions is subject to guarantees regarding the holding of the next elections. The AN president warned that they would not accept such “pressure” from Washington.
Regarding the scope of the agreement signed in Barbados, Machado added: “The signed agreements must be fulfilled” “Including election-related ones that affect me, and we’re already monitoring those for compliance.”