01/01/2024 10:37 p.m., updated 01/01/2024 10:46 p.m
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said he does not know whether he will run in the country's 2024 presidential election. The statements were made during an interview broadcast this Monday (January 1) on the Telesur channel.
“It is still premature. The year has just begun. Only God knows… Not Diosdado [Cabello], God. Let's hope that the electoral scenarios for the process that will take place this year are defined and I am sure that with God's blessing we will make the best decision,” Maduro said, referring to Vice President Diosdado Cabello.
Cabello, vice president of the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), has at various times expressed interest in Maduro running again. In fact, the politician even defended that Chavismo would rule the country for more than 200 years.
Maduro is expected to run in the presidential election against former lawmaker María Corina Machado, who won the opposition primaries. According to the Venezuelan constitution, elections are scheduled to take place later this year, but a date for the campaign has not yet been set.
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International organizations have expressed concern about a possible lack of transparency in Venezuela's elections.
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In July last year, the Venezuelan National Assembly approved an agreement that does not allow the presence of a European Union election observation mission in this year's elections.
“As long as we are representatives of the Venezuelan state, no observation mission from Europe will come here,” defended the President of the National Assembly of Venezuela, Jorge Rodríguez.
Nicolás Maduro has held Venezuela's executive power since 2013, when thenPresident Hugo Chávez died of cancer.