Manuel Rosales, governor of Zulia and president of UNT, defended the technical assistance of the National Electoral Council (CNE) in the primaries of an opposition sector. “How do I say that I am not going with that CNE and then how will we go to the presidential elections.”
“I cannot deny the automated system that made me governor and that allowed us to win in other states and in Barinas,” Rosales said.
He affirmed that his party, Un Nuevo Tiempo, will participate in the primary elections, without specifying who would be the standard bearer of this awning.
Rosales, in a press conference held in Caracas, maintained that “there is a group of leaders in our organization and we are going to put music to the primaries,” he stated in reference to the Zulian bagpipes.
He insisted that the primary elections should be as similar as possible to the 2024 presidential elections, which implies the technical participation of the National Electoral Council.
UNT go without hurry to the primaries
“If something differentiates us from day-to-day politics, it is that we are not pressured by emotion or haste and we are within the period established by the Primary Commission, so we will timely announce a representative in that process, scheduled for on October 22,” he emphasized.
Rosales specified that the National Electoral Council (CNE) “does not belong to any instance in particular, it belongs to all Venezuelans and we have the right to demand its support, unless we are in the presence of a primary election that is a joke, a bottle of rooster to end paths other than participation.”
The governor of Zulia and president of UNT led a national plenary session for the design of political actions, an activity framed in the Federal Congress of the party to elect the next national authorities.
Hatred and slander arise in the opposition
In his statements, accompanied by leaders of his party, he indicated that this is not the time to sow doubts about the primaries “nor to generate a scaffolding that discredits those who participate in this election.”
He was also emphatic in saying that he would not call for abstention, because we are not in times of hatred and lies so that the processes end badly, of setting up a big trap in which nobody wins and we are all going to lose, that is why we defend and believe it is necessary than these primaries,” he said.
In addition, he said that he has been the victim of the worst slander in the country, born from the opposition itself.
During the UNT political plenary session, Luis Emilio Rondón, vice president of the party, expressed that the organization has the commitment and the need “to give the country the opportunity to participate and to minimize abstention.”
