María Corina Machado reiterated that any process must be based on the recognition of the electoral results of July 28, 2024 and to achieve a transition in the country
María Corina Machado assured this Monday, February 2, that she is willing to meet with Delcy Rodríguez, in charge of the national Executive, to talk about “a schedule” of democratic transition, a process that she once again described as “irreversible.”
«If it is necessary to exchange in a meeting for the purposes of defining a transition schedule, it will be done. But I have said it, any process is based on the recognition of July 28, 2024 and for a transition,” said Machado, winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, in a virtual meeting with Colombian media such as the newspaper The Time and the station Snail Radio.
Machado thus referred to the 2024 presidential elections in which the opposition claims the victory of its candidate, Edmundo González, but the electoral authorities – without presenting the electoral records – gave the victory to Nicolás Maduro for a third term that began on January 10, 2025 and ended abruptly with the intervention of the US when he was seven days away from completing the first year of his new term.
In the opinion of the opposition leader, the Venezuelan ruling party was convinced that the members of the Government “were untouchable and that is why they are not prepared to accept that this (the transition) is irreversible.”
«These guys are being forced to carry out processes against their own essence. “Everything that sustains the Maduro regime is repression,” Machado added.
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Trump meeting with Petro
When asked about the meeting that the presidents of the United States, Donald Trump, and Colombia, Gustavo Petro, will have this Tuesday in Washington in order to turn the page on a stormy year in the bilateral relationship, the Nobel Prize winner stated that it is “important.”
The meeting, after a year of criticism and offensive comments from both sides and when Petro has only six months left in office, was agreed upon in a phone call that the two leaders had on January 7 to reduce tension after the capture of Maduro by the United States.
In that sense, Machado stated that the meeting is an opportunity for the Colombian president to “define himself clearly” because “you cannot be with crime and oppression and with the Venezuelan people” at the same time, in reference to Petro’s closeness to the Chavista Government.
“I hope that Mr. Petro understands that this process (of transition in Venezuela) goes further and that his doubts end up being dispelled,” added the opposition leader.
With information from the EFE agency
*Journalism in Venezuela is carried out in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments in place to punish the word, especially the laws “against hate”, “against fascism” and “against the blockade.” This content was written taking into consideration the threats and limits that, consequently, have been imposed on the dissemination of information from within the country.
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