Henrique Capriles has said that he will not apply for Miranda’s governorate, as Nicolás Maduro suggested two weeks ago in his weekly program. An disqualification for 15 years, which expires in 2032, also slows possible aspirations of the Mirandino politician
The elections to choose new governors, representatives of state legislative councils and deputies to the National Assembly have created a division within the opposition gathered under the unitary platform: participate to give a boost to citizen mobilization or refrain because it would be the choice of «new hostages ».
On the first side is Henrique Capriles, former governor of Miranda between 2008 and 2017, who has called to vote as a «Act of resistance» that should not be criticized.
“We are walking to a gigantic error that is to dismiss the vote tool,” Capriles said in a social networks transmission on February 18.
Political leaders such as María Corina Machado or Juan Pablo Guanipa have indicated that at this stage it is appropriate to May 25– and organize under a figure of “democratic resistance.”
🟡 Capriles called to develop a democratic resistance that transcends political parties and defends the electoral route.
📌 Via: @Galiciaj pic.twitter.com/4x9tcyek3a
– 𝙋𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙖 (@Polianalitica) Februry 20, 2025
“That it is also very plural, that summons all sectors of the country, which transcends political parties, that organize knowing all the risks and that the Government, indeed, can steal the election,” said the former governor of Miranda .
Nicolás Maduro also threw firewood into the opposition field, and assured that Capriles wishes to run back to the Government.
«Capriles wants to be governor of Miranda again, but has not received the call (from the United States) that says ‘Approved, eat on’. It’s a drama, so Capriles give it, make your decision, don’t wait for the call, throw yourself that we are waiting for you on 27, ”Maduro said on February 10.
The Maduro Pran ordered Capriles to apply for the Miranda Governorate, offering him to win and will be again the regent of that state, he does that to try to legitimize those chimbas elections and that no one is going to participate.
Let’s see what Capriles does … pic.twitter.com/nacmmcn18v
– Pedro Estrada (@Pedr0estrada) February 11, 2025
Henrique Capriles: disabled
Of aspirations not only a candidate is postulated. Since April 2017, Henrique Capriles He was disabled by the Comptroller General of the Republic, chaired by Manuel Galindo.
«Who also speaks to them is politically disabled, I am not aspiring to any position. This provocation and this Maduro tares. I do not understand how there can be people who are still letting Embaucar for a comment from Maduro, a Maduro tares who say that I take a step and assume the candidacy for governor if I am disabled by his government. I cannot participate even to be a councilor of the municipality where I have lived my whole life and of which I had the honor of being mayor. That is, I do not speak of a personal aspiration, but of a collective desire, ”said Capriles on February 18.
A day later, in an interview for the program to four columns, he reiterated his position: «It is not true that I am going to be a candidate for something. I do want me to lift me the disqualification of me and all who have disabled unconstitutionally. But my position is not for a particular interest ».
🟡 Capriles denied that he is negotiating with Maduro to take away the political disqualification in order to be a candidate in the regional and parliamentary elections of the 25may.
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– 𝙋𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙖 (@Polianalitica) Februry 20, 2025
The sanction against Capriles, as justified by the Comptroller in 2017, is “for incurring tipified illicit assumptions” as “not to present the local budget before the State Legislative Council, to agree on international agreements without authorization to do so and sign contracts by the Miranda Government with companies without complying with the standards ».
His disqualification, which he expires in 2032, was ratified last year by the Administrative Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice, which declared his demand “without place”.
But the measure against Capriles does not appear in the consultation of “sanctioned” on the website of the Comptroller General, unlike politicians such as María Corina Machado whose disqualification was ratified the same day as that of the former governor. His team was consulted on this point, and pointed out that the sanction remains in force.
In addition, Capriles would need a game to run. Although militates in First Justice, the National Directorate of the organization has decided that attending new elections is not combined with the July 28 defense. The decision raised a series of complaints from regional leaders, who made public a letter where they expressed the lack of consultation of these and other decisions.
It should also be remembered that First Justice was intervened by the Supreme Court of Justice in 2020. After a legal limbo, the TSJ decided to deliver control of the party, its card, emblem and colors to deputy José Brito, by appointing him as president of a board Ad Hoc Directive.
In any case, the former governor of Miranda should negotiate with a new time (UNT) or movement by Venezuela (MPV), the two matches of the platform by current card and who have decided to participate in the regional elections, if it raffles the stumbling block of the disqualification and decides to run.
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