González Urrutia, exiled in Spain, remembered the primaries “not only as an electoral event, but as the starting point of that citizen feat that made the triumph of July 28 possible.”
Edmundo González Urrutia assured this Wednesday, October 22, that each Venezuelan “has to play a role” in the process to ensure political “change” in Venezuela.
In a virtual meeting with politicians and other personalities, he stated that the country “again needs that same capacity for mobilization, coordination and commitment” that, he said, there was in the primaries two years ago, in which the opposition María Corina Machado was chosen as a candidate for the presidential elections on July 28, 2024, which was prevented due to a disqualification against her.
The former deputy gave up the candidacy to González Urrutia to represent the largest opposition coalition – the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD) – in the presidential election, in which the bloc claims that the opponent won and considers the controversial re-election of Nicolás Maduro proclaimed by the electoral body, controlled by officials related to Chavismo, fraudulent.
González Urrutia, exiled in Spain, remembered the primaries “not only as an electoral event, but as the starting point of that citizen feat that made the triumph of July 28 possible.”
«We work to defend and make effective that victory, and in that task we count on everyone. Each citizen has to carry a piece of paper; each community, a responsibility. The road is still open. What began on the day of the primaries demands of us the same discipline, serenity and the same conviction, because the force that transformed that electoral process into an expression of citizen power is the same one that can ensure the democratic transition,” he expressed.
González Urrutia pointed out that, after the primaries, Machado, today the Nobel Peace Prize winner, “undertook a campaign that inspired an entire country,” during which he “toured towns and cities by car, on a motorcycle, in trucks, with few resources but – he said – with a determination and a will that turned on lights in the midst of so much darkness.”
“This mobilization not only added support, but also encouraged hope and conviction that change was possible,” he added.
For his part, the opposition and former governor Andrés Velásquez explained that the primary election “was a strategic approach” that “allowed all political factors to be unified” and aligned “citizens with the campaign and with the purpose of change.”
“The primary was, without a doubt, the first step for what was built later until July 28,” he added.
González Urrutia and Machado, as well as the opposition coalition, claim to have 85.18% of the electoral records issued on the day of the presidential elections and collected by thousands of citizens who participated as witnesses and polling station members, which, they insist, prove the opposition’s claimed victory, while Chavismo assures that they are false.
With information from the EFE agency
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