Given the announcement made by the National Electoral Council (CNE) about the date of the next presidential elections, to be held on July 28 of the current year, as well as the electoral schedule that will be developed, the National President, Nicolás Maduro, highlighted that the process has been carried out within the framework of respect for the negotiation process “from Norway, Mexico, Barbados, and which were recently expanded in the Caracas agreement.”
He ruled that Venezuela, a nation punished by sanctions and that was severely attacked by the economic war “has not failed to make a single election that we have had to make, in the midst of the worst guarimba (riots) in 2017 we held three constituent elections, governorships and mayoralties and we totally won the three of them in the midst of the worst sanctions and we went to the presidential elections in 2018.”
Then, in the midst of the pandemic, the constitutional route was fulfilled. Likewise, in 2020 “the people were called to vote to elect, as appropriate, a new National Assembly that the people elected with their popular vote in 2021, a year in which the economy was still creaking.”
The dates announced by the electoral body come to silence the claims of the right wing that claimed that the National Government would refuse to hold elections in 2024:
“They had a chatter of that we were going to make a maneuver, that we were going to provoke I don’t know what world conflict, and that we were going to suspend the elections. You don’t know us, oligarchs of the surnames, far-right bandits, criminals who have asked for sanctions, you don’t know us, the CNE has spoken, a sacred word and we say Amen with the CNE’s announcement of presidential elections on July 28. We are going to presidential elections,” said the Dignitary.
