“We are not going to whitewash the regime and for there to be a real election we have to choose a new political leadership”

CAR05. CARACAS (VENEZUELA), 06/22/13 – Venezuelan deputy María Corina Machado looks on during an interview with Efe Este, June 19, 2013, in Caracas (Venezuela). María Corina Machado, the female face of the Venezuelan opposition, assures that her country’s democracy suffers from the “betrayal of Latin America”, although she excluded Pope Francis from it, who might hasten “the transition to democracy” as happened in Europe of the This one with the Pole John Paul II. This 46-year-old engineer and deputy, the most voted in the country, has not left the opposition front row since the referendum that in 2004 tried to remove Chávez from power and following she was received in the White House in 2005 by the then US president. , George W. Bush. EFE/Miguel Gutierrez

The leader María Corina Machado established a position on an eventual presidential electoral process. She considers that the opposition should not participate in a scenario that belongs to the “terrain” of the government of Nicolás Maduro.

“To liberate Venezuela we have to confront the tyranny on our land. Not the one the regime intends to impose on us », he said.

Maria Corina Machado

He continued: “Everyone knows, by now there is no naivety, what the nature of these guys is and what they are doing. They want at all costs to simulate stabilization, whiten their faces, paint facades, make up universities and hide the hunger and pain of Venezuelans. Something he called “disgusting”.

“What they do is not important but what we have to do,” he said.

He said there should be no confusion regarding who “the real opposition to tyranny” is.

Standardization

“Don’t count on us to clean up Maduro’s face and clean up his crimes before the International Criminal Court, or to simulate a normalization that tries to make the world believe that Venezuela is fixing itself,” Machado said.

He ruled out that there will be a clean election in 2024. He assured in this regard that the government will be the one to choose the opposition candidate.

“What is best for the regime is to see a crowd getting into an electoral fair with whistles and flags promoting candidates in a fantasy country,” Machado said.

He said that for a candidate to be useful it must be a “real election.”

“And for there to be a real election, we first have to choose a new political leadership. Not in three years, today », he indicated.

He pointed out that five conditions must be met for this: «Zero CNE; Zero TSJ, neither this current Chavista nor the new one that they intend to impose; zero Republic Plan; zero machines, manual voting, you count and validate your vote; all Venezuelans, here and those around the world, can vote.

He insisted that international allies must be recovered to isolate Maduro.

It’s time to really measure yourself and let each Venezuelan decide! pic.twitter.com/tqktnga6OT

– Maria Corina Machado (@MariaCorinaYA) April 6, 2022

It’s time to really measure yourself and let each Venezuelan decide! pic.twitter.com/tqktnga6OT

– Maria Corina Machado (@MariaCorinaYA) April 6, 2022

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