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“Maduro is 100 percent defeatable”: Guaidó calls for the reunification of the opposition with primary elections
After the end of the symbolic “interim government” with which he tried unsuccessfully to take power in Venezuela for four years, Juan Guaidó proposes reuniting the opposition with primary elections, in the belief that President Nicolás Maduro, whom he “Dictator” means, “conquerable.” “The problem we have today is the reunification of the democratic alternative. Once the democratic alternative is reunited, Maduro is 100 percent defeatable,” the 39-year-old opposition leader said Monday in an interview with AFP in Caraca’s view of the 2024 presidential election. Guaidó, the target of numerous lawsuits in the Caribbean country, hopes that the primaries can still take place in the first half of this year. The fragmented opposition itself eliminated the figure of the “government interim party”. ‘, recognized by the United States and fifty countries in January 2019 for challenging Maduro’s re-election a year earlier Is it the allies who have withdrawn support from the ‘interim government’? , that’s a majority “. “More than disappointed, I think that today, as Venezuelans, we feel disgust, not because of our allies, but because of the behavior of everyone (…). More than disappointed by one, two or three people, more than that, I share the feeling of disgust at what is currently happening in Venezuelan politics, which must go beyond party interests and continue to fight for the common good (…). I take my share of the responsibility “immediately”. – What has been the impact of the progressive loss of international support along with the left turn of several Latin American countries? – “It is a mistake to address Maduro (…). Yes, certainly the approach of Alberto Fernández (President of Argentina) to Venezuela has clearly weakened the position of the interim government. Much better a country that firmly denounces a dictatorship than it does Put it into perspective, the same goes for President (Gustavo) Petro (in Colombia), the same goes for (Andrés Manuel) López Obrador (in Mexico). Has Juan Guaidó lost his position? This is not a personal matter. Anyway ¨(lost) democracy (…). Where is the Inter-American Charter of Human Rights? Lyrics today without application (…). The international community has great weaknesses (…) to call dictators to account”.- Can the opposition after the Divisions win the 2024 presidential election?- “If there is a union, no doubt. The problem is not Maduro, or rather, the problem we have today is the reunification of the Democratic A alternative. Once the democratic alternative is reunited, Maduro is 100% defeatable (…). Faced with the possibility of a free and fair election, Maduro is absolutely weak, defeatable.” – Is the opposition losing strength in the negotiations, which resumed with Maduro’s delegates in Mexico last November? better position (…) but we are ready for an agreement dealing with electoral conditions to make an election a political solution to the conflict we are witnessing in Venezuela.” – Will at eventual primaries run for office? – “My candidate is the union. So my candidate is the primary candidate and when we have primary, when we have a schedule, I will make a decision (…). Today all of us (the main opposition leaders) are disabled, imprisoned or in exile. So it will have a lot to do with how Mexico develops and how the possibility of a competitive primary and a free, fair and competitive (presidential) election develops.” erc-pgf/ll