Opposition leader Henrique Capriles said that “July 28 is not the final battle” following acknowledging that this process and the historical moment in Venezuela is not the same as that experienced in 2013.
In an interview with the program “Conversando con Emilio,” Capriles said that he has “hope that on July 28 we will have perfect unity” and confirmed that the current process is different from those experienced at other times in the country.
“Right now you clearly see that retirees, employees and pensioners are the most opposed to Maduro. There are more than 5 million Venezuelans who earn 130 bolivars. Maduro has eliminated wages. How many millions of Venezuelans are there around the world?” he added.
He also asked to avoid making comparisons with the electoral processes registered in the country in previous years, “we are not measuring the feeling of change by the people you can find in the street, because today we have a country that has lost connection with politics, the majority of those who participate are older people, young people have migrated.”
Regarding the presidential candidate, Edmundo González, he said that “he is a good person, he does not come from a political background, but from a diplomatic background. He is the president of the MUD, the candidate who received the most votes in the country.”
He also spoke regarding the government’s discourse of labelling the opposition as bourgeois, to which he indicated that in Venezuela “the rich” are those in government.
“The rich guy in the neighborhood is the one who got connected, the one who runs the Clap, the one who runs the UBCH. This confrontation shows you that the government does not read the country. The country is tired of this, the country is tired, it has been 25 years in power. Maduro has been in the Miraflores seat for 11 years, he wants six more years, for what?” he said.
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2024-07-20 04:02:37
