Venezuelan Opponent Says Guaidó’s Interim Government Must “Disappear”

The interim government headed since January 2019 by opposition leader Juan Guaidó must “disappear” because it has lost “legitimacy,” said Julio Borges, former president of the Venezuelan Parliament, two weeks after a crushing opposition defeat in the regional elections.

“The notion of the interim government has to disappear completely, we cannot continue with a payroll, with a bureaucracy that last year reached almost 1,600 people, we ask to eliminate that completely,” Borges told reporters during a videoconference from Colombia in which He resigned from his position as a collaborator of Guaidó.

Borges, exiled in Bogotá, served as Guaidó’s diplomatic delegate, recognized as interim president of Venezuela by the United States and another fifty governments, although in practice he has not managed to displace President Nicolás Maduro from power.

“We must take reform steps to everything that has been called interim government (…), the interim government has been deformed,” said Borges, who will present his proposals to a commission made up of members of Parliament elected in 2015 on Tuesday. , and whose validity expired in January 2021, after taking office a new National Assembly, with an official majority, elected in December 2020.

The leader warned that the opposition struggle to “get out of the dictatorship” of Maduro, whose re-election in 2018 they are unaware of as “fraudulent”, has lost “legitimacy.”

“We have lost legitimacy, international support, because there have been too many contradictions, there have been too many errors, there have been too many scandals and that has caused the world to put the Venezuelan case on the refrigerator (refrigerator), waiting,” he remarked.

Due to this, he pointed out that it is urgent “to rebuild and accumulate force to regain legitimacy within Venezuela and outside Venezuela.”

Borges’ proposal seeks a change of route in the opposition, pulverized by deep fractures that were evident in the regional elections of November 21, held with the return of the main opposition parties after several years of boycott, but with few agreements on unitary candidacies. .

Borges also questioned the acts of corruption that have plagued the interim government.

“The issue of assets (outside of Venezuela) is truly a scandal, there is no political will of the parties to do what needs to be done: create a trust so that those assets are separated from the management of the political parties, mainly the party of Juan Guaidó, and you can have independence, transparency, clarity, “he questioned.

So far Guaidó has not spoken. (I)