The presidential candidate of the main opposition coalition of Venezuela, Maria Corina Machadohe asked Venezuelans this Sunday “confidence and focus” for the elections in the second half of 2024, when he will seek, as long as his political disqualification is lifted, to defeat Chavismo at the polls.
In his message Christmasthe former deputy said that Venezuelans are “strengthened” after the primaries that she won last October, when she swept 92.35% of the votes and became the standard bearer of the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD) for the presidential elections.
“We close 2023 with renewed hope, we courageously assume the challenge of making our route to freedom a reality (…) let us maintain confidence and focus on our purpose“, he expressed in a writing in which he called for “move forward in 2024 towards a bright future in Venezuela”, governed by Chavismo since 1999.
Likewise, the liberal recalled the civilians and soldiers who are behind bars today, considered by human rights organizations as political prisoners, whom she called “hostages of the regime for the cause of freedom”.
“To them, my words of encouragement and my commitment to returning them to their families in an equally free country.“, he claimed.
Furthermore, Machado spoke of “the special fiber that moves these days” to the country, due to the migration of the last decade, when more than seven million Venezuelans left the nation in the midst of the economic crisis, a situation that began to improve slightly at the end of 2021.
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“My prayers for the millions of citizens of our people who have had to leave their country (…) to them and their families I say that the destiny of our struggle is the reunification of each family and the entire nation“, he remarked in his message, which concluded with a prediction of electoral victory in 2024.
The anti-Chavista leader asked the Supreme Court to review the sanction imposed by the Comptrollerwhich prevents him from holding elected positions until 2030, making use of a mechanism agreed between the Government and the PUD at the political negotiation table, from which an agreement on guarantees for the 2024 votes emerged.
Machado, like other opponents who adhered to this mechanism, have not yet received a solution from the highest court.
