Maria Corina Machado y Edmundo González Urrutia They confirmed this Saturday that the next January 10 They will enforce the popular will expressed at the polls on July 28 and will assume power in Venezuela.
During their intervention at the International Meeting with Activists, the opposition leaders assured that the regime’s attempts to Nicolas Maduro for staying in power fraudulent They will be in vain since, thanks to their struggle and the support of millions of Venezuelans inside and outside the country, they will be able to collect their victory and they will lead Venezuela towards its liberation.
“There is no doubt that on January 10 we will take possession. We are fighting“, taking our voice, the voice of all Venezuelans abroad,” González Urrutia began by saying, who, after being forced to go into exile in Spain, took the lead in the democratic struggle in the old continent, in countries such as Portugal, Italy, Germany and Belgium.
“Us We are going in the campaign for the reconstruction of Venezuela and every day more people join us. Everyone is determined that the next 10E will begin the reconstruction of Venezuelafrom every place where it is,” he added with confidence about the next stage of the fight that the dissidents have been waging for months.
Machado also referred to the process that the country is going through and pointed out that the cause of the transition is already “a global priority.” “Everyone knows what happened on July 28 and everyone knows that Venezuela will be free. It is up to us to lead this process and ensure that all actors do their part,” he said.
However, the main opposition figure in Caracas warned that we should not wait until the beginning of next year to launch the efforts, but that Venezuelans must stay united and active until then, just as they have been doing. In fact, after weeks without calls, he announced that the Democratic Unitary Platform is planning an upcoming massive meeting in which millions of people, once again, raise their voices against the dictatorship.
“We are planning, this December 1, a huge protest. They ask us what we will do on January 10. No. January 10 is today, January 10 is a surrender movement for the liberation of Venezuela”he explained.
In that sense, he took the opportunity to thank the international community and leaders and politicians from around the world for the steps they have been taking to strengthen their claim and accompany their process.
“The United States recognized Edmundo González as president(Giorgia) Melons (President of the Council of Ministers of Italy) He said that Edmundo is the president elected by the Venezuelansthen it was Ecuador who recognized it“, he celebrated, before also mentioning this Tuesday’s announcement of the House of Representatives of the US Congresswhich “approved an initiative to advance with the Bolivar Law” and further limit the actions of the regime, and the presentation of the “acts of truth” in Chile and Argentina.
“Today there is no better time to meet,” he concluded with a tone of hope.
At the end, the Venezuelan lawyer specializing in Human Rights Tamara Suju He called on his compatriots around the world to be promoters of the opposition cause and extend their support in any way possible.
“The diaspora has to become the voice of hope of Venezuelans. Let us become, from the countries in which we are, mobilizers so that each country adheres to the Venezuela case in the International Criminal Court and ask for the arrest warrant against Maduro and the regime”he declared.
Finally, the opponent Juan Pablo Guanipa He trusted in a change of course in his country and in a prosperous future for all the people, far from Chavista repression, censorship, authoritarianism and torture.
“We are giving the fight to make the victory of July 28 become a political change. We are going to be able to collect. I have the conviction that Maduro is going to hell. We are going to start the most beautiful process of transformation of the country“, said.
After the elections, the largest opposition coalition, the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), denounced Maduro’s victory as “fraudulent” because it maintains that its candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, is the elected president, based on 83.5% of the votes. records that they claim to have gathered through witnesses. The regime, on the other hand, never demonstrated its alleged victory in the elections.
