The motion was supported by the Coalition legislators, but did not have the votes of the Broad Front leaders.
The ruling party expressed its “emphatic rejection and condemnation” of what happened in Venezuela with María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader who was disqualified for the elections that will take place in that country this year.
The motion was presented by the Senator of the National Party, Gloria Rodríguez, and had the support of legislators from the different parties of the Coalition that make up the Permanent Commission, but it was not supported by Broad Front, whose leaders asked that the issue be discussed in the International Affairs Commission.
The text, which he accessed Ambit, bears the signatures of Rodríguez and his PN peers, Jorge Gandini, Alfonso Lereté and Juan Martín Rodríguez, as well as Ivan Posada (Independent Party), Guillermo Domenech (Open Town Hall) and Omar Estevez (Colorado Party).
The note “emphatically rejects and condemns” what happened with Machado and other political leaders, while calling on the Venezuelan government “to unrestricted respect for democratic principles and values,” by demanding compliance with the agreement Barbados.
At the same time, it asks the Venezuelan State “to respect and guarantee the full free exercise of the human rights of its inhabitants,” while for its part “exhorting the Uruguayan state to continue supporting the democratic return to Venezuela and that its people can freely choose their rulers.”
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Gloria Rodríguez asked “not to silence facts with excuses”
When referring to what happened in the country he presides over Nicolás Maduro, Gloria Rodríguez expressed: “Enough of silencing facts like these with excuses. Many talk about non-intervention, but, far from that, they support or remain silent in the face of this situation.”
“For many decades we have been mentioning this authoritarian regime that has increased since Maduro’s presidency. This prohibition of Machado It is one more pearl to this necklace of violation of human rights that has been unfortunately being implemented in Venezuela”, the legislator questioned during the session, expressing herself in line with what was stated by the president Luis Lacalle Pou.
And he noted: “Now it becomes more visible because it is a candidate with serious possibilities of winning the presidency who has been disputing that place against the Chavista government led by Ripe”.
Source: Ambito
