At the beginning of a year that will be decisive for Venezuelan politics, with the presidential elections still full of unknowns and controversies, the president Nicola Maduro For now he does not want to confirm whether he will seek re-election.
In an interview on the first day of 2024, the president said he still considered it “premature” to talk about his “possible candidacy” in the presidential elections, scheduled for this year although without a specific date. But he assured that the people “will teach the empires” and the “oligarchic right” a new lesson.
“It’s still premature. The year has just begun. Only God knows. We hope that the electoral scenarios of the process that will take place this year will be defined and I am sure that, with the blessing of God, we will make the best decision”, said the head of state in an interview with the Franco-Spanish intellectual Ignacio Ramonet , broadcast on the state channel VTV.
In any case, in the “decision” on his “possible candidacy”, he assured, “neither personalistic nor individualistic ambitions, nor ego, nor blue blood” “will never” be put first, but “the interests of the country” .
Nicolás Maduro has not yet announced the date of this year’s presidential elections in Venezuela. Photo: REUTERS“And when the decision is made, whatever it is, we will all go on a conquest. What I can say today is that, in 2024, the Venezuelan people will teach a new lesson to the empires of the world, right-wing oligarchic, to the extremists, who will not forget for decades,” he said.
In this sense, he stated that the Venezuelan “popular forces” “are preparing for a great electoral victory and for a new time of revolution that will come”, with the “historic projects” left – he observed – by the late president Hugo Chávez.
“2024 will be a year of great triumphs,” the president added.
In recent months, the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) has repeated itself in official events and meetings a new slogan facing the presidential elections in which they state that “the one who will go (to these elections) is Nicolás”.
Furthermore, last September, the first vice president of the formation and considered the number two of Chavismo, Diosdado Cabello, said he hoped that “elections will be held so that Nicolás Maduro continues to be the president of all Venezuelans”.
Venezuelan MP María Corina Machado was proclaimed the opposition candidate, despite Chavismo disqualifying her. Photo: EFE What will happen to the opposition?
The country plans to hold presidential elections in the second semester, as agreed between Chavismo and the majority of the opposition, gathered in the United Democratic Platform (PUD), in October, when they signed an agreement on the “promotion of political rights and guarantees elections for all”, which includes, among other points, international observation.
The bulk of the opposition assures that it will work “every day” in 2024 to obtain the “electoral victory” of its candidate, María Corina Machado, disqualified from holding elective public offices.
Machado, who assures that she was never informed of any disqualification, asked the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) in December to review her case, using a mechanism agreed between the government and the PUD in the framework of the negotiations.
The former Liberal MP won the opposition primary on October 22, obtaining 92.35% of the vote.
Source: EFE
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