JVR: Aspirations to candidacies generate controversies within the MUD


The differences prevailing in the Venezuelan right wing deepen on the aspirations of some leaders of the so-called Board of Unity (MUD), who openly express their intentions to aspire to the Governorates or the Presidency of the Republic, while the other coalition members consider it as premature, said on Sunday the journalist Jose Vicente Rangel.
During the “José Vicente Hoy” ( José Vicente Today) program, broadcast on Televen, he said the Chairman of the National Assembly (AN), the adeco(*) Henry Ramos, wants to continue in the direction of the Parliament, an aspiration that violates the agreement held with the Primero Justicia (PJ) party – and he is in favor of defining a candidate for the Chairmanship this year.
Given the pretension to choose a presidential candidate, leaders of Un Nuevo Tiempo and PJ parties rebel against that, “For considering it premature and also for the crack that this fact would cause in the alliance,” said Rangel.
He also said that within the opposition there are actors who want that regional elections not to be made, considering that the struggle would divert them from their main goal, which was to carry out a recall referendum this year, an aspiration that some sectors already accepted as unlikely.
The reporter noted that another controversy on the applications is evident in the pretenses by Henrique Capriles, who refuses to part with the Governorship of Miranda state, “An office to chich aspires the current mayor of the Sucre municipality, Carlos Ocariz.”
He also stressed that leaders of Accion Democratica (AD) raised the need to withdraw the duties from Jesus “Chuo” Torrealba as a national coordinator of the MUD. He said that although they do not give reasons for this, they do not hide their discomfort.
As for the call for dialogue made by President Nicolas Maduro, he said that Julio Borges, Enrique Marquez and the very Torrealba are in favor of a dialogue with the Chavismo, while AD and Voluntad Popular oppose the call to resolve differences in favor of peace.
(*) “Adeco” refers to anything or anyone belonging to the right-wing party “Acción Democrática”