Opponents assure that they will respect popular sovereignty
The Venezuelan opponents Juan Pablo Guanipa and César Pérez Vivas affirmed this Saturday that the opposition grouped in the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), will continue fighting to “make respect for popular sovereignty”two months after the presidential elections in which the electoral body proclaimed Chavista Nicolás Maduro as the winner.
«We all know the truth! Edmundo González is the elected president of all Venezuelans, and we are all active and determined to respect the popular sovereignty manifested in the vote,” Guanipa wrote in the social network.
Likewise, he said that they will maintain the “internal pressure and receive global support” so that the ruling Chavismo “recognizes reality and whoever is sworn in on January 10 is the one who really won: Edmundo González Urrutia«.
The fight is to “make the truth count”
Pérez Vivas affirmed, on the same social network, that two months ago the “dome installed in power decided to ignore said mandate and dealt a blow to popular sovereignty, that is, to the Constitution.”
«Our fight continues to assert the truth, that is, the will of the sovereign«he added.
Chavismo and the PUD return this Saturday to measure their strength in the streets, with calls for demonstrations that aim to continue defending or questioning Maduro’s controversial re-election in the presidential elections on July 28.
Opponents called for a “global protest” which, they hope, will occur in several cities and towns in Venezuela and 53 other countries, as explained by opposition leader María Corina Machado, the main promoter of these demonstrations.
In the case of Venezuela, the liberal indicated that the opposition protests will be carried out under the “swarm” modeso that citizens can “appear and disappear” quickly and thus avoid being detained, after some 2,400 people ended up behind bars in the context of the post-election crisis, some of them apprehended during the demonstrations.
For its part, Chavismo, which considers that “it does have reasons to celebrate,” has called on its followers to demonstrate that they are the majority in the country, as indicated this week by the first vice president of the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, also Minister of the Interior and Justice.
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