Nicolás Maduro Guerra is confident of a Chavista victory, but clarified that if there were a defeat, the government would recognize the results, as occurred in other elections, where the opposition’s proposals triumphed.
Nicolas Maduro Guerra, son of the president of Venezuela, said on Wednesday that if his father is not re-elected to continue for another six years in the Miraflores Palace, they will accept the results and prepare to be the opposition: “If Edmundo González wins, we will surrender and we will be the opposition, that’s it.”
Maduro war He highlighted the similarity of the current campaign with that of 2012, when Hugo Chavez was re-elected and expressed his optimism regarding the presidential elections next Sunday: “We are going to have a great victory”he said, indicating that there are surveys that give them an advantage of between 8% and 10%.
He also noted that, according to his analysis, the campaign of his main rival, the diplomat González, “has stagnated,” while Chavismo is having a good moment.”
In an interview with the newspaper The country In Spain, Maduro Guerra stressed the need to accept the popular will. “History has shown that the day we don’t win, we recognize it. Always, every election, every one,” he stressed, recalling past events such as the constitutional reform of 2007 and the legislative elections of 2015, where Chavismo accepted the adverse results.
Regarding criticisms about the country’s economic situation, Maduro Guerra acknowledged that the Venezuelan government faced significant challenges, but defended the policies implemented to maintain social and political stability. He also referred to mistakes made, such as trusting people who ultimately betrayed that trust, highlighting the case of Tareck El Aissamiformer vice president and oil minister, implicated in a corruption scandal.
Following Maduro’s request, Alberto Fernández will not travel as an election observer
The ex-president Alberto Fernandez surprisingly announced this Wednesday that will not travel to Venezuela to participate as an observer of the presidential elections that will be held in that country next Sunday. “The Venezuelan national government informed me of its wish that I should not travel”he assured on his social networks.
According to what he assured Fernandez“the reason What I was given is that, in the opinion of that government, Public statements made by me to a national media outlet caused discomfort and raised doubts about my impartiality“.
Yesterday he had said in a radio interview that “If Maduro is defeated, what he has to do is accept; as (Brazilian President) Lula (da Silva) said, the one who wins, wins, and the one who loses, loses. Period. It’s over. That’s democracy. I’m not going to legalize anyonebut I am going to do what they asked me to do, be an observer of the elections so that everything works well,” he explained.
Source: Ambito
