Henrique Capriles, ex-governor of Miranda, believes that the internship further weakened the Venezuelan opposition and that its elimination, earned the opportunity to get out of a “very expensive fantasy.”
The former governor of Miranda and former presidential candidate Henrique Capriles considers that Juan Guaidó, a parliamentarian of the National Assembly elected in 2015 and until recently considered interim president of Venezuela by a part of the international community, will not win in the primary elections organized by a sector opponent.
In an interview with the newspaper The country, Capriles considers that Guaidó “has not learned anything” from what happened in recent years in the country and confessed that it is very difficult for him to understand it, since he believes that he needs “subtitles” because of his way of speaking. He added that those in power cannot continue to be underestimated.
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He does not see Guaidó as a candidate who really stands as the unitary candidate and indicated that he will vote for whoever wins in that process. He said he did not know if the Popular Will politician would support an eventual candidacy on his part, although he emphasized that “the presidential elections are won with all the votes, including him, although none of our votes is decisive.”
He believes that the internship further weakened the Venezuelan opposition and in his opinion, in the regional elections of November 2021, President Nicolás Maduro and the PSUV were left as the “first minority.” In this sense, he stressed that if the opposition wants to do things well, all the minorities can be added and a majority can be consolidated.
Capriles insisted that the opposition has a “great opportunity” for Venezuelans to vote and believes that, with the elimination of the interim, they have gained the opportunity to get out of a “very expensive fantasy.” In the same way, he believes that the objective that structure should have had was only to call elections and not build a bureaucracy around it.
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He revealed that they requested the US ambassador to Venezuela, James Story, to expedite the availability of frozen resources to comply with the Social Agreement signed in Mexico; although he insisted that the objective is to achieve the holding of democratic elections.
He stated that Venezuelans must stop thinking that some critical event will cause Maduro’s departure from power, but that they must move forward along democratic paths to achieve that end.
He reproached the assertions made in recent days against him by the national coordinator of Voluntad Popular, Leopoldo López, that there are people who are not interested in holding the primaries but choosing the candidate by consensus. He reiterated that he is sympathetic to the primary process and believes that the opposition does not currently have the possibility of choosing someone outside of that mechanism.
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