The Venezuelan opposition denounced obstacles to signing support for the candidacy of Edmundo González Urrutia

The Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), which brings together the main opposition parties in Venezuela, denounced that the National Electoral Council (CNE) continues this Tuesday without allowing several formations to formally sign their support for the common candidate for the presidential elections, Edmundo González Urrutia .

González appears on the card of the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD), but the objective is to expand his range of support to avoid potential vetoes of specific electoral cards, with a view to his candidacy being able to reach the elections of 28 December unscathed. July and confront Nicolás Maduro.

The general secretary of the Platform, Omar Barboza, denounced this Tuesday the “unsuccessful” attempts by the Movement for Venezuela and Un Nuevo Tiempo – the party of Governor Manuel Rosales, who precisely withdrew his candidacy to support González – to “join” to the MUD card.

Barboza appealed to the National Electoral Council to fulfill its “constitutional duty” and “facilitate the participation of the people in the electoral process,” warning against any possible “maneuver.”

“It is important that the people know that these are not actions against a political party or a person, they are against the right that the people have to vote and change,” said the opposition leader, who advanced that they will continue “pending and alert” to defend citizens.

Edmundo González himself advocated on social networks to “advance in a transition to definitive freedom” and to fulfill “the desire and mandate of millions of citizens who demand a change,” after his name was chosen by the coalition to solve the veto of María Corina Machado, disqualified from holding public office.

Lula celebrated his support for González Urrutia
On the other hand, the Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, described this Tuesday as “extraordinary” that the Venezuelan opposition is grouped around a single candidate and reiterated his desire that all sectors respect the result of next year’s elections. 28 of July.

“It is an extraordinary thing,” because the opposition to Nicolás Maduro “met and a single candidate is presented,” Lula said at a press conference in apparent reference to Edmundo González Urrutia, of the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), the main coalition. anti-chavista.

In the last month, the Brazilian Government expressed its “concern” about the obstacles imposed on the registration of candidates and received an angry response from the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry.

Lula insisted this Tuesday that the elections in Venezuela, as well as in other countries, must be “transparent” and that the result of the elections must be recognized by everyone.

He stressed his desire that “whoever wins takes office, whoever loses continues in the democratic struggle,” and that “the United States withdraws the sanctions so that Venezuela can receive back all those people who left due to the economic situation,” he noted in reference to to the millions of Venezuelans who fled the country in recent years.

On the other hand, former Colombian president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Juan Manuel Santos, said in an exclusive interview published this Monday by the newspaper Folha de São Paulo, that if Gustavo Petro and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva want to help in the transition democracy in Venezuela “the time is now.”

According to Santos, the action of the Colombian and Brazilian leaders is crucial this week, since a reaction from the Nicolás Maduro regime to the unification of the opposition against the candidacy of former ambassador Edmundo González Urrutia is expected and it is possible that he will be disqualified.

In that sense, the former Colombian president said that it would be “very important” for Lula and Petro to tell Maduro: “respect this candidate.” Source: Infobae

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