Lula and Petro are aware of the implications of the elections, says María Corina Machado

The opposition leader of Venezuela Maria Corina Machado said this Wednesday that the president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silvaand that of Colombia, Gustavo Pedroare aware of the implications that the result of the July 28 presidential elections will have not only on the Caribbean country, but also on the Latin American region.

The former deputy said Council of the Americas -based in New York-, through videoconferencing, that the international community “support this fight“by elections”free” is at “fair conditions“, until “former allies“from the president Nicolás Maduroamong which he mentioned Lula and Petrowho “realize” that “the result of these elections will have enormous consequences not only for Venezuelabut for the region.”

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In this sense, the opponent warned that, if “Mature maintains power by force, blocking the elections or commit a major fraud, (…) that would mean that, immediately, in less than a year”, there will be some “two, three, four, five million Venezuelans fleeing”, in “the biggest migratory wave seen so far”.

On the other hand, he continued, if the candidate of the main opposition coalition – the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD)-, Edmundo González Urrutia -who accompanied her on the video conference-, becomes the “next president”, the international community would “not only” see “migration stopped, but was reversed.”

“We will see a lot of people returning“, he expressed Axwhich also ensured that Venezuela will become the energy powerhouse of the Americas, thanks to its “huge potential”In resources such as oil and gas.

In April, Petro described the disqualifications of opponents, including Axas a “antidemocratic coup”, while Lula, in March, called it “serious” and without “political or legal” explanation the impediments to the registration of the Corina Yoristhe PUD’s first option to contest the elections given the sanction that weighs on the former deputy.

In addition to González Urrutianine other candidates will face each other in the presidential elections, including Maduro, who is seeking his second re-election and, with it, keeping Chavismo in power, where he has been since 1999.

Source: Elcomercio

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