The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, reported that he welcomed the opposition Governors elected in the recent regional elections, with whom he met at the headquarters of the National Executive branch, the Miraflores Palace.
The meeting, which lasted approximately one hour, was attended by Governors Ramón Guevara, from Mérida state, Alfredo Diaz, from Nueva Esparta, and Antonio Barreto Sira, from Anzoátegui state, the Governor-elect for Táchira state did not attended due to other compromises, said the Head of State.
“We have talked about the cooperation between the two instances of Government: the national, Bolivarian, revolutionary and regional Governments that they, after being sworn to the ANC, assume in their respective states. I can say that the meeting was cordial and we were talking about the issues they want to advance as Governors. We speak about the peace of the country, the strengthening of democracy, the need for cooperation”, he said during the High Level Workshop on Strategic Planning Towards a New Stage of the Bolivarian Revolution.
The President said that the Governors have a set of approaches, proposals and projects, and ratified that they have his support as Head of State and Government.
“They will continue to be opposition, we will continue in the Revolution, from the Revolution, and we will work together”, he said.
He denounced that part of the opposition receives and responds to orders from Washington, Miami and Bogotá. He said that they respond more to orders received from abroad than to their constituents.
The President said that these relations of coexistence, cooperation and harmony in the midst of differences, consolidates democracy and the Venezuelan political system, and added that “the only way to settle the differences is with public debate and through voting”.
“It can be made through dialogue, it can be made through the word, it can be made through respect. You have to know how to win and how to lose. You cannot leave opponents behind for whatever Washington says, for whatever Bogotá or Miami says”, he said.
He criticized that the international right wing pretends to keep on the discourse of fraud to the regional elections when the Venezuelan opposition already acknowledged the results and the process was widely audited.
“I give my hand for work, a generous and firm hand, a generous and strong hand, generous, loving hand, for work. Just as I tended it to Barreto Sira, to Ramón Guevara and Alfredo Díaz, and I also tend it to the Governor of Tachira state, with respect” and ended by asserting that the extremist right wing of the country has been defeated.
