The main opponent of the government of Nicolas Maduro, Maria Corina Machado, He called on Venezuelans abroad to return to their country if they win this Sunday’s elections, which promise to be one of the most important in the region in recent years.
Venezuela vote this Sunday in what is shaping up to be one of the most important elections in recent years, and choose between the continuation of Maduro at the head of the government or between the renewal of the government by the opposition. Maria Corina Machado who, disqualified as a candidate, is represented by the former ambassador Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia.
The opposition leader issued a message this Sunday calling on Venezuelans around the world, who migrated due to an economic and political crisis in that country. “They are raising before the world the voice of the millions of Venezuelans who have already decided to live in freedom,” said the candidate.
“We are going to reunite as a family. We are going to bring you back home. Thank you for all you have given, for having been so close during this journey that ends today with freedom, with victory,” he promised, adding: “Here we await you, the world and I, with open arms.”
1% of residents can vote in the country
Currently there are around 40,000 Venezuelans in Uruguay, of which only 1% are eligible to vote from this territory, that is, around 400 residents.
“It is something that, unfortunately, the Government put in place, to limit the majority of the diaspora from being able to vote. In fact, today, in the world, of eight million Venezuelans who are spread throughout the planet, only 69,000 are eligible to vote,” he explained to Telenoche. Angel Arellano, of the Venezuelan-Uruguayan Chamber.
“It is a sad, absurd figure that speaks of what the government has done to prevent people from exercising their rights,” he added.
“We still have faith that things will improve, that there will be a transition to democracyin which, finally, there is an alternation that allows the country to get out of the quagmire and democracy to return to Venezuela”, Arellano continued, noting that “the Uruguayan society” accompanies that feeling and desire for change.
According to the Venezuelan journalist Luis Carlos Diaz to Radio Carve, the pollsters The most serious polls in the country give more than 60% of voting intention to the opposition candidate González Urrutia.
Source: Ambito
