Álvaro Delgado, Andrés Ojeda, Guido Manini Ríos and Pablo Mieres signed the letter regarding the elections that will take place this Sunday.
The coalition candidates demanded elections “peaceful and without interference” in Venezuela, by issuing a joint statement to warn of the risks of the elections that will take place this Sunday in the country that leads Nicolas Maduro.
Through a statement released Alvaro Delgado (National Party) Through X’s account, the official leaders questioned the existence of political prisoners and disqualification of opponents. The letter was also signed by Andres Ojeda (Colorado Party), Guido Manini Rios (Open Town Hall) and Pablo Mieres (Independent Party).
The official candidates assured that “the conditions of the elections do not guarantee a democratic process”, noting that there are “exiles, political prisoners, harassment of the opposition and the disqualification of the main opposition candidate, Maria Corina Machado”.
In the text, they indicated that “there is still an opportunity to advance in a process of democratization in Venezuela through the ballot boxes”, but they made it conditional on the fulfillment of “the conditions of an electoral act peaceful, without interference, transparent and with the guarantees inherent to a democratic electoral process.”
“If the result reflecting the vote of the citizens were adverse to the current Venezuelan government, let it accept it and commit to an unhindered, orderly and peaceful transition,” they pointed out. Ripe the leaders of the coalition.
Uruguay is closely following the elections in Venezuela
The elections of the Sunday in Venezuela do not go unnoticed at the local level. The chancellor Omar Paganini He considered that “the playing field is arrowed”, but recalled that the same thing happened in the 1980 plebiscite in the country. “The playing field was arrowed, and the Uruguay “He voted No, just like with an arrowed field, and a process of opening up began. Maybe we are in a similar situation,” he hoped.
Meanwhile, since the Broad Front They assured that no irregularities had been detected so far, but their president Fernando Pereira He clarified: “What we have to do is wait for the results and accept them. There are no 10 ways of looking at democracy.”
On the proscription of Machado He considered that “it is not the best thing that could happen” and said that “each case has a judicial reference”, while he valued that “people from the opposition were authorized to participate.”
Source: Ambito
