Through the X social network, the Minister of People’s Power for Foreign Relations, Yván Gil, rejected on behalf of the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela the statement signed on March 27, 2024 by the government of the United States of America, where they point out that “preventing the registration of an opposition candidacy threatens the possibility of free and fair elections.”
For this reason, the Chancellor highlighted that “Venezuela has fully complied not only with the legal and constitutional norms to carry out the next presidential elections on July 28, 2024, but has also complied with each point of the agreement signed between the government legitimate of Venezuela and the self-proclaimed Unitary Platform of a small sector of the Venezuelan right wing.
Following, the full text of the Communiqué:
“The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela categorically rejects the statement of March 27, 2024 from the government of the United States of America in which the heads of the operation against Venezuela finally show their faces, as owners of a circus that tries to disown and delegitimize the upcoming presidential elections.
Given the solidity of the Venezuelan electoral system, proven in more than 30 elections since 1998, the United States intends to minimize the participation of 37 political forces nationwide that, covering the wide ideological spectrum that exists in the country, registered 13 presidential candidates, among them 12 who identify themselves as opposition. The United States also seeks to hide that it was the internal dynamics of the Venezuelan opposition that ended up displacing political sectors committed to terrorist, unconstitutional, undemocratic and violent actions, which have repeatedly demonstrated that they have no sincere intentions to measure themselves electorally before the people, but rather to take actions to guarantee the American interests and those of the Venezuelan oligarchy.
Venezuela has fully complied not only with the legal and constitutional norms to carry out the next presidential elections on July 28, 2024, but has also complied with each point of the agreement signed between the legitimate government of Venezuela and the self-proclaimed Unitary Platform of a small sector of the Venezuelan right wing. This contrasts with the permanent sabotage against the Barbados Agreement and the other agreements raised in the direct dialogues between the United States government and the Bolivarian Government.
Venezuela is proud of its electoral system and eager to maintain peace, economic growth and national political stability. Faced with this new attempt by the State Department to take the path of extremism against Venezuelan democracy, Bolivarian dignity will make them fail again and again.”
Caracas, March 28, 2024
“#Communique – The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela categorically rejects the statement of March 27, 2024 from the government of the United States of America in which the heads of the operation against Venezuela finally show their faces, as owners of a… pic.twitter. com/JlwKqzj5TJ”
— Yvan Gil (@yvangil) March 28, 2024
