Maria Corina Machado at a forum in Spain: “I want to tell you that we are going to get Maduro to accept his defeat and leave power”
“Today I want to tell you that we are going to make Nicolás Maduro accept his defeat and leave power.” With these words, in a conversation in Madrid, Spain, the Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado He reaffirmed his confidence in Venezuela (and Venezuelans) and in the future.
“What we have experienced is much more than an electoral struggle. This has been an existential struggle for life, an ethical struggle for truth and a spiritual struggle for good. That is why we are going to win,” he said.
Machado participated this Monday in the discussion organized by the Foundation NEOS in Madrid, The State is mewhich included interventions by Ramón Pérez Maura, director of Opinion at The Debate; Alvaro Nieto, director of The Objective; Carlos Espinoza de los Monterios, businessman and senior government commissioner for the Spain Brand, and Antonio Ledezma. It was moderated by Goizeder Azúa.
‼️MARIA CORINA MACHADO‼️
“We are deeply grateful to Spain and the Spanish people. This has been a milestone in the fight, and we must continue to move forward.”
The president of Venezuela will be sworn in on January 10.
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— NEOS Foundation (@NEOS_esp) September 23, 2024
What needs to be done to get Maduro out of power, according to María Corina Machado
María Corina Machado said that the cost for Maduro to stay in power must be higher than the cost of leaving. “To do this, it is necessary to continue advancing in this strategy that involves multiple options inside and outside Venezuela,” she explained.
“Internally, I want to assure you that today we are stronger than ever. Maduro has only lost more and more support,” he said.
He added: “Today he is strictly supported by a high military command within which he feels entrenched. Today the only tools he has left are fear and terror.”
She said she is committed to continuing to move forward with Venezuelans who remain in the country as well as those who are scattered around the world, and thus achieve “that the international community takes up the Venezuelan cause as its own: the cause for the freedom of Venezuela is today a global cause.”
“That is why it is so important to maintain international pressure at all levels,” he added.
The message of hope that @MariaCorinaYA has sent NEOS and the Spanish from Venezuela.
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— NEOS Foundation (@NEOS_esp) September 23, 2024
He thanked Spain and the Spanish people
Machado thanked Spain and the Spanish people, the Congress of Deputies, the Senate, which recognized Edmundo González as president-elect, and the European Parliament.
“This has been unique in this struggle and we must continue to move forward until all countries in the world recognize Edmundo González as president-elect because on January 10 he will be sworn in as constitutional president of Venezuela,” he said.
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