PUD invites the government to agree to the terms of a serious negotiation

The largest opposition bloc in Venezuela – the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD) – and opposition leaders Edmundo González Urrutia and María Corina Machado This Wednesday they invited the government of Nicolás Maduro to agree on the “terms of a serious negotiation” for a “transition” with a view to January 10when the next presidential term begins.

In a statement, the coalition called on “the representatives of the regime” – among whom it mentioned the head of the official delegation in the dialogues with the opposition, Jorge Rodríguez – to agree on “the terms of a serious negotiation that allows the fluidity of the transition and that enforces the will of the electorate, expressed on July 28, with the election of Edmundo González Urrutia.

Although Maduro was proclaimed the winner by the National Electoral Council (CNE), the PUD insists that González Urrutia was the winner, by a wide margin, of the last elections, and to support his claim he published on a website 83.5% of the minutes” that he claims to have collected from witnesses and polling station members.

In his statementthe PUD pointed out that during the last few months it made “repeated invitations for serious negotiation” with a view to a “peaceful and orderly transition, whose starting point is respect for the popular sovereignty expressed on July 28 and the constitutional mandate that establishes that, on January 10, Edmundo González Urrutia takes office as president.

#Important | Statement of Edmundo González Urrutia @EdmundoGUMaría Corina Machado @MariaCorinaYA and the Unitary Platform. #2Oct pic.twitter.com/oS5LSA0gBj

— Unidad Venezuela (@unidadvenezuela) October 2, 2024

The PUD on the dialogue proposed by Jorge Rodríguez

«Those who must abandon power at the will of the electorate and those of us who must assume it must designate the necessary liaison commissions so that the Executive Branch “works in the most orderly manner in the transition to January 10,” express.

In this way, the alliance responds to a call made on Tuesday by Rodríguez, also president of the National Assembly, to establish a political dialogue, starting this Thursday, to adjust the electoral legislation.

In the opinion of the PUD, the dialogue proposed by Rodríguez is “just a propaganda exercise (…) without an agenda, without rules, without a safe location for all participants.” are “exempt from threats and pressure from the regime, and without an impartial mediator to accompany him.

He assured that the review of electoral regulations “is not the center of the problem, since it lies in compliance and compliance with them.”

Rodríguez, who will chair the special commission of Parliament that will attend to this political dialogue, announced that this process of reviewing laws Personnel from the CNE and the Electoral Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) will be incorporatedwhich validated Maduro’s controversial re-election.