The president of the Frente Amplio, Fernando Pereiraspoke about the delicate political situation that Venezuela is going through and asked that it not be compared to the left-wing regime of Nicolas Maduro with the Broad Front since “they have nothing to do with it”; he also admitted that the government of that country is not democratic.
Comparisons with the Broad Front and Venezuela have spread in the opinion of various actors in the political spectrum, a premise that the president of the FA rejected. “It is a shame to compare the Frente Amplio with Maduro’s left, we have nothing in common, we do not have the same practices, the same ways of solving, we have not exercised the government in this way when it was our turn. It is absurd to raise this,” he stressed in dialogue with Informativo Sarandí.
In that sense, he admitted that Venezuela He is running a regime that is not democratic. “There is no doubt that it violates freedoms; that it has generated an election with proscribed people, there is no doubt; that there are political prisoners, there is no doubt; so if you ask me, is it a democratic regime? It is not,” he said.
However, he asked for a certain level of prudence when sentencing the Bolivarian government. “We must be much more careful when we talk about a country that is far away from us, that has another culture, that has another way of doing politics. Many people talk about Venezuela without even having spent a minute there.” Venezuela, without even knowing what parties there are in Venezuela,” he commented.
He also regretted that the discussion on democracy in Venezuela has become so embedded in Uruguayan politics. “Many people talk about Venezuela as if the issue could be resolved in the Uruguayan discussion,” he said.
“The worst of all is that it is about emulating a situation in Uruguay as if it were the Venezuelan one, and what can the Uruguayan left have to do with Maduro? We governed for 15 years, did we limit freedom of expression? No. Did we limit freedom of association? No, we promoted it where it did not exist, in the Police, in the rural sector, in the domestic workers sector,” he stressed.
The concern of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
He Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MRREE) reiterated this weekend its concern about the political crisis in Venezuela After the elections of last Sunday, July 28, and after the National Electoral Council (CNE) ratified the victory of the President Nicolas Maduroa result that was branded as “fraud” is unknown by the opposition and by more than a dozen countries, among which is Uruguay.
This Saturday, the Foreign Minister Omar Paganini discussed the situation in the Caribbean country with the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice President of the European Commission, Josep Borrell.
Through his X account (formerly Twitter), Paganini said: “This morning I spoke with Josep Borrell, vice president of the European Commission. We share the great concern about the situation in Venezuela“.
In turn, both leaders agreed on the “urgency” for the CNE to “show all the information” and to allow a “comprehensive independent review” of the electoral records.
Through the same social network, the Vice Chancellor Nicolás Albertoni He stressed that “the position expressed by our country” is that “the true electoral will of the Venezuelan people must be respected.”
Source: Ambito
