The Venezuelan Episcopal Conference (CEV) assured this Tuesday through an official communiqué, that the Venezuelan people is characterized for having a great democratic vocation, and is used to solving problems through electoral channels, therefore a call is made to settle differences at the polls.
In the text is stated that the call for the abstention of opposition political sectors is a strategy that will deepen the political fracture in the country.
In the same way, the CEV repudiates any way out of the constitution and for this, they find it necessary to hold free, fair and impartial elections:
«With the participation of all political parties and movements, and with an ethical foundation that respects the citizen vote, as provided for in the Constitution and electoral norms», states the communiqué.
They warn that a group of political parties has expressed their willingness not to participate in the next parliamentary elections of the December 6th, and they urge to seek solutions and generate proposals for the people who for years have believed in them.
«Well, abstention only will increase the political-social fracture in the country and hopelessness about the future», says the official letter of the CEV.
At the same time, they affirm that this decision to abstain deprives citizens of the valid instrument to defend their rights in the National Assembly, since the fact of not participating leads to the immobilization and abandonment of political action in Venezuela.
The Venezuelan Episcopal Conference invites the full and free participation of all parties and political movements in the country in the upcoming electoral process and to put aside «individual interests to promote the common good and service to all the Venezuelan people.»
