His party, Popular Will, participates in the disputed elections.
Despite the fact that his political party will participate in the elections, the Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó said that “there is no fair game” in the local and regional elections next Sunday, to which the anti-Chavista bloc will attend for the first time in five years, including most of the politicians who showed their support for him.
“The electoral power in Venezuela is not independent, it is protected by the dictatorship, the cards of the political parties of the (opposition) unit are still kidnapped and their initials given to leaders co-opted by the dictatorship,” he said on Friday in a video released in their social networks.
In addition, he affirmed that the authorities “did not allow the return of the exiles”, despite the fact that three of the opposition candidates -Tomás Guanipa in Caracas, José Manuel Olivares in La Guaira state and Américo de Grazia to the Government of Bolívar- returned to their country and have been able to campaign.
In the opinion of the former deputy, “the advantage of the regime” of President Nicolás Maduro “is total”, since they use the public media to promote the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), “allow irregular registrations” and ” they make use of public resources ”.
“Our position on that (electoral) event has been very firm and, in recent weeks, the facts support it: there are no conditions for a free and fair election in Venezuela,” he stressed, despite the fact that most opponents have supported participation in elections.
Among those who have supported the decision to go to the polls is Voluntad Popular (VP), the party led by Leopoldo López and in which Guaidó has played his entire career.
“We have said that we respect the decision of the parties of the unity that decided to go to the process as a tool of struggle, organization and exercise of the majority that we are in Venezuela, also that of the parties that will not participate arguing the absence of conditions”, Guaidó said without referring directly to any organization.
To the different observation missions, among which there is one from the European Union (EU) which he did not mention directly, he demanded that they present reports that are a “clear image of all the abuses of the dictatorship” that – he considers – exercises Mature.
Finally, he made a call “to all Venezuelans”, among whom, according to the polls, has a very negative image, to continue “fighting together for the goal” of “recovering democracy” and “overcoming the crisis.”
“For this, we are going to insist on a comprehensive agreement (in negotiations with the Government) that provides urgent solutions and that allows conditions for free, fair and verifiable presidential and parliamentary elections to be achieved,” he concluded. (I)
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