After several boycotts, Venezuela’s opposition around the self-appointed interim president is seeking Juan Guaido to participate in the regional elections in the South American crisis state on November 21. “We made this decision after a difficult process of internal deliberation,” said Plataforma Unitaria.
Left President Nicolas Maduro congratulated the opposition on their decision. “I will sit in my armchair with the television switched on, with my popcorn, to see Juan Guaido vote on November 21,” said the authoritarian head of state on VTV. “And I’ll applaud because we managed to get him back into democracy.”
In the group around Guaido there are various Venezuelan opposition parties such as Primero Justicia and Voluntad Popular. In a few days, the government and opposition want to resume the dialogue that began in Mexico in mid-August in the conflict that has been going on for years.
The opposition is demanding free elections and the release of political prisoners, the socialist government is striving to ease international sanctions. In the 2018 presidential election, for example, from which the authoritarian head of state Maduro emerged victorious, the opposition did not take part, arguing that it was not free and fair.
