Juan Guaidó calls for the unification of the Venezuelan opposition for the presidential election

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido, called on Sunday for the unification of the opposition and to resume street activities “as soon as possible” for the presidential election.

Guaidó, who on a day like today in 2019 proclaimed an interim presidency arguing that the president’s re-election Nicholas Maduro a year earlier it was a fraud, he said the sectors of the opposition should go to a process of “legitimacy of leadership” through pre-elections.

“For me, it is necessary to call the streets (…) if the dictatorship intended to keep us in the houses,” Guaidó added at a ceremony in a park in the east of Caracas, which served has as an informal place for sessions of opposition delegates as government and military sympathizers prevented them from entering the National Assembly building in January 2020.

“We are now talking about organizing ourselves, we are talking about a presidential election, we must arrange now,” the opposition leader said. The presidential election is scheduled for 2024, although the Maduro government has in the past brought forward the date of its completion.

The new call for peaceful street mobilization will be on February 12, when Venezuela youth dayGuaidó said during a commemoration of the 64th anniversary of the 1958 overthrow of the military dictatorship of Marcos Perez Jimenez.

After the Venezuelan opposition merged around the figure of Guaidó, the Venezuelan opposition broke up after a series of setbacks such as a failed civil-military action in April 2019, abstinence in the December 2020 legislative elections and that it was not fully united for the regional elections last November.

Amid harassment by the ruling party, which caused the exile of several opponents and collaborators of Guaidó, the opposition won a recent election victory in a bastion of the ruling party, by winning the governorship of the state of Barinas, where late former president Hugo Chavez; Opposition sectors are debating their strategy to return to the streets before the presidential election.

Maduro’s government “fears the street, fears the grassroots organization,” he added when speaking to reporters. “Barinas demonstrated it and the haste demonstrated it, the ridiculousness they just did by killing a constitutional right”, such as a referendum revoked of Maduro’s mandate.

The highest electoral body said on January 17 that it had received from three civic organizations to begin the process of a final call for revocation, but on Friday, the electoral body’s council authorized a schedule for the signatures in a period of 12 hours, a period during which members of the opposition-affiliated organization said the procedure was not feasible.



Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx

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