The candidate and former president of Bolivia Jorge Tuto Quiroga said Friday that if he wins the second electoral round in October, he will invite his investiture to the Venezuelan opponent Edmundo González Urrutia and not Nicolás Maduro, whom he again accused of “stealing” the presidency of the Caribbean country and called “narcocriminal”.
Quiroga (2001-2002) He will face the Centrista Senator Rodrigo Paz Pereira and whoever is the winner will be invested president of Bolivia on November 8.
“Maduro does not come here on November 8, no sir, here comes Edmundo González, who won the election (in Venezuela). I’m going to invite Edmundo González, “he said The former president to the media.
He also asked the elected parliamentarians that “by overwhelming majority make a resolution recognizing in the new” Bolivian legislative González Urrutia “as the man who, with the minutes of the electoral body of Maduro himself, won” the presidential elections held in Venezuela in July 2024.
On January 10, Maduro swore for a third term in Venezuela for the 2025-2031 period, despite the complaints of electoral fraud by the majority opposition block, which He claimed the victory of González Urrutiawho is exiled in Spain since the end of last year.
Quiroga said that “In Venezuela come times of change“As, in his opinion, it happened in Bolivia after the general elections of August 17, in which the governmental movement to socialism (more) barely managed to exceed 3 % required by the rules not to disappear.
“What we have done in Bolivia has inspired and motivated them a lot and know that Venezuela and Bolivia are called to be free and democratic together. This year, this year, Bolivia will be free and democratic Fully after 20 years and Venezuela too, “he said.
Quiroga also criticized recent statements of the former president and former leader of the most Evo Morales (2006-2019), who told a local medium that he will propose “how to recruit volunteers who can join the militias of Venezuela to defend” that country before the military deployment of the United States in the Caribbean.
“Defending Venezuela is defending the great country, defending Venezuela is defending all the natural resources of Latin America,” Morales justified.
Tuto Quiroga He described Morales’s proposal as “atrocity” and asked “When are you going?”
The conservative candidate considered that the former leftist president is “Bravucón de Boca Nomás”, but is “hidden” and without leaving for almost a year of his union and political bastion in the center of Bolivia.
For Quiroga, Morales “makes Bolivia go by shame” being “the only one who continues to defend the Narcocriminal of Maduro.”
