María Corina Machado, leader of the Venezuelan opposition and the most popular political leader in the country, has broadcast on Wednesday a video in which he expressly calls for the boycott of the next parliamentary elections and governors. Machado not only urges disobedience to the elections organized by the Chavista regime through the National Electoral Council (CNE), but disavowing opposition politicians who have decided to participate and are calling to vote.
“Power is ours. The power to disobey. On July 28 (date of the last presidential elections, in which a fraud of the ruling has been denounced), we vote. This May 25 (day of the new elections), we will not vote,” says Machado in his video. “On July 28 we said no to lies, not to abuse, not to humiliations. That day we win, because we are Venezuela (…). You already disobey. And when we all say no, they don’t send.”
The pronouncement of machado is produced in the middle of a living debate on social networks and some media in the country around the relevance of voting in these elections, even despite the procedures rigged from the past 28-J, the protests of later days and the hard repressive process launched by the ruling party below.
The opposition parties and leaders who have separated from Machado and the democratic platform to compete and promote the vote today obtain some space to spread their message, in an absolutely apathetic electoral environment, almost non -existent. These days, the unitary platform condemned the fact that the electoral authorities have suppressed the QR code in the voting records, and there are still unesaled questions in the organization of electoral processes.
Manuel Rosales, Henrique Capriles, Juan Cadiessens Tomás Guanipa, redouble efforts visiting neighborhoods, making proselytism and denouncing the living conditions of the population. All often argue that the vote is a citizen instrument that cannot be abandoned, and that it would be a huge mistake to leave only Chavismo in this consultation
The Chavista ruling and some opposition parties also celebrate their campaign and mitines, particularly in the interior of the country. They are usually supported by informative reports of the channels of the National Public Media System. To them, strictly, Machado responds that the only task that politicians and democratic society have in front of them consists in enforcing the results of the past presidential elections of July 28, and that those who lost their morals, are scared or want to coexist with the regime in these circumstances, they must take a step to the side.
Despite the stagnation of the current political situation of the country, and the possibilities of a transition of democracy, Machado still has an enormous power of convocation among the population. It has been strengthened with the political success of the extraction of the five opposite leaders in the Argentine Embassy in Caracas, close to it personally and the political, on which the Chavista ruling has not wanted to present more arguments.
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