The Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado called this Wednesday for a large demonstration in Venezuela ahead of the inauguration of the Presidency, scheduled for next January 10, inviting citizens to take to the streets at the same time to sing the national anthem.
“All of Venezuela will be in the street, embracing each other in a beautiful and powerful rite of freedom, in all of Venezuela, towns and cities and in all the cities of the world where there is a Venezuelan, at the same time we will shout Glory to the Bravo People,” he said. Machado in a video published on the social network X.
The former deputy maintained that “freedom” depends on everyonewhile pointing out that “the key” is to act in coordination.
“Wherever you are, in a hamlet in Amazonas or in Maracaibo, in Tenerife or in Lima, this is the most important task of our lives and we have it here, ahead of us, in a few days,” he added.
He insisted that on July 28, the presidential candidate Edmundo González Urrutia, supported by the opposition coalition Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), was the winner of the elections despite the fact that the National Electoral Council (CNE) proclaimed the re-election of Nicolás Maduro.
“We defeated them politically, electorally and spiritually, truth has triumphed, reason has triumphed and goodness has triumphed,” he added.
Machado pointed out that the “final defeat” of the Maduro regime is “very close.”
On Tuesday, González Urrutia, exiled in Spain, asked all Venezuelans to continue “together with the commitment to enforce that mandate in 2025,” in reference to the presidential elections last July.
“January 10, as you know, is the date established by the Constitution so that, as president-elect, he can assume the corresponding functions,” he wrote in X.
On December 10, Maduro called on Chavismo supporters to mobilize “by millions” on January 10when the 2025-2031 presidential period begins, with the inauguration of the winner of the elections held on July 28.
The head of state invited his followers to take to the streets that day to “swear for Venezuela, to swear for independence, to swear for the Bolivarian homeland,” as he has reiterated that he will go to the headquarters of Parliament – controlled by the chavismo – to swear into office for six more years.
On January 10, the president elected in the July elections must attend the headquarters of the National Assembly (AN, Parliament) to take the oath of office, in the midst of accusations between the ruling party and the opposition that have caused an increase in political tension.
“January 10, as you know, is the date established by the Constitution so that, as president-elect, he can assume the corresponding functions”González Urrutia wrote yesterday on the social network hate and division.”
(With information from EFE)
