From the ruling party they insist on the “birth of a new opposition” after the results of the municipal elections, in which the main opposition block called to leave the “empty” electoral centers. From cause R, Andrés Velásquez wonders if “it can be called opposition to those who are not able to fight for electoral conditions so that the vote is respected”
Nicolás Maduro called on Wednesday, July 30, which he defined as “new opposition” to “pass the page of so many horrible chapters” and advance a “dialogue for the country.”
After the municipal elections held on July 27, in which the majority opposition headed by Edmundo González Urrutia and María Corina Machado called the population to leave the empty electoral centers, the ruling party dismissed the abstention figures, ensuring that “it does not exist” and that it is “a ghost.”
This Wednesday, in a television Venezuelan broadcast (VTV), Maduro insisted that “a hard core of a new opposition has emerged.”
“To that new opposition, I, as they know, extend my hands for the dialogue for the country, to pass the page of so many horrible chapters, of blows state, called to blockades, to sanctions, to assassins, called to foreign military intervention, ambushes against sublime objectives of the country,” he said.
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Both Maduro and Jorge Rodríguez have talked about the “birth of a new opposition” referring to the political organizations that decided Urrutia won the victory with more than 60% of the votes.
“Neighborhood Force with 11 mayorships is the second opposition force. A new interlocution is born, which is the opposition that has the votes. Last night PJ died, VP, rest in peace and UNT is ank. Press on Monday, July 28, just when one year of the presidential ones was completed.
Similarly, the deputy referred to the Democratic Alliance, composed of AD and Copei prosecuted, Change, first Venezuela and the change, among others, as “the first opposition force”, after the award of 19 mayorships. Rodríguez included in the Group to the Pencil Alliance, by Antonio Ecarri, and Arepa, by Daniel Ceballos, for having “achieved” two and a local government, respectively.
The definition of “new opposition” of which the ruling was discussed was questioned by the national leader of the cause R, Andrés Velásquez, who has repeatedly called “not to pass the page” of July 28, 2024.
«Can it be called opposition to those who are not able to fight for electoral conditions so that the vote is respected. Or whom he maintains a picantice with the dictator’s excesses? », said Thursday in his account in X.
With information from the EFE agency
*Journalism in Venezuela is exercised in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments arranged for the punishment of the word, especially the laws “against hatred”, “against fascism” and “against 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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