July 25, 2024, 4:37 PM
July 25, 2024, 4:37 PM
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Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López said that the National Armed Forces (FAN) will defend the Constitution during the presidential election this Sunday, July 28, and pointed out that the one who lost should go to rest and the one who won should work on his government plan.
“The one who won should get on top of his government project and the one who lost should go and rest. That’s all,” said the longest-serving minister in Nicolás Maduro’s government, four days before the elections, on his account on the X network on Tuesday, July 23.
Through a video that accompanied the publication, he added that The military will wait for the Venezuelans’ decision in this process electoral process that will be announced by the National Electoral Council (CNE).
«To the keyboard politicians, the pollsters and other schemers who ask themselves: What is the FANB going to do on July 28? To them we respond that we will do what we have always done: defend the Constitution and popular sovereignty. Make no mistake“, said Padrino Lopez.
Although Maduro during a visit to the state of Barinas assured in his speech that he had the support of the FANB, despite the fact that article 328 of the Constitution says that the Armed Forces “It is an essentially professional institution, without political militancy.”
This article specifies that the officials of this component in the performance of their duties, It is at the exclusive service of the nation and in no case of any person or political party.
