Maduro warns that the people will win the elections “by hook or by crook”

The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Madurowho is expected to run for a third term in this year’s presidential elections, assured thousands of followers in Caracas on Sunday that “the people in power” will win “by hook or by crook.”

“We are the people in power (…). “We will win by hook or by crook,” he said. Maturedressed in a red shirt, to thousands of people celebrating the 32nd anniversary of the failed coup d’état of February 4, 1992 against former president Hugo Chávez (1999-2013), who Mature is designated successor.

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“Whenever they give us, however they give us (the elections), the people (are) organized to win,” he said. Maturewhile the President of Parliament, Jorge Rodríguez, called on political and civil society actors on Monday to decide the date of the presidential elections.

Symbolically, Mature He invited Rodríguez to the stage and highlighted that he “responded strongly to the foreigners” (Americans) about the ineligibility of the main candidate, María Corina Machado, and about the date of the elections.

Under an October agreement signed in Barbados between the government and the opposition, elections were to be held in the second half of 2024 with the presence of international observers.

Furthermore, the courts should allow potential candidates like Machado to appeal their ineligibility. However, the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) confirmed his disqualification last week, namely for “treason” for having supported US sanctions.

Consequently, the United States announced that in April it would reinstate the oil and gas sanctions it had suspended following the Barbados agreement.

“The meeting called for tomorrow (Monday) by the regime ignores the commitment it signed in favor of free and fair elections in the Barbados agreement”, reacted Machado on Sunday through X, and accused the government of wanting to “wash its face” . compromising, through threats and blackmail, institutions and people.”

Machado, who handily won the opposition primaries in October 2023, cannot run at this time.

“4F” (February 4) is often considered the anniversary of Chavismo. Hugo Chávez, a young officer with socialist ideas, tried in vain to overthrow President Carlos Andrés Pérez and before going to prison he said: “for now, the objectives we set have not been achieved”. Seven years later, he came to power at the polls.

Among the activists present on Sunday, Yurbi García, 28 years old, demonstrated in support of Chavismo in power. “We are just building the beginning of what it means to build our own history, our own sovereignty, build a plan, a path for our children, for our grandchildren,” he said.

Source: Elcomercio

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