This Friday, the Board of Directors of the Peruvian Congress rejected that “the authoritarian Venezuelan regime” has disqualified the main opposition candidate María Corina Machado and defined this decision as arbitrary.
«(The Board of Directors) expresses its rejection of the decision of the Venezuelan authoritarian regime, led by Nicolás Maduro, to disqualify the opposition leader María Corina Machado Parisca, of the ‘Vente Venezuela’ political party.said Parliament’s working group in a statement.
He also expressed his “concern about this arbitrary decision of the Supreme Court of Justice of Venezuela«, who a week ago confirmed that Machado has a 15-year disqualification.
«Likewise, we call for future elections to be ones where freedom of choice, democracy, transparency and the legitimate will of the Venezuelan people are guaranteed.«added the Peruvian Congress.
The working group of the Peruvian Congress maintains that these presidential elections be carried out under the strict observation of international observers.
HRW asks Petro to advocate before Venezuela in favor of Machado
The Human Rights Watch organization asked the Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, to intercede with Venezuela to revoke the decision to disqualify María Corina Machado.
In a letter signed this Thursday in Washington, the director of the organization’s Americas Division, Juanita Goebertus Estrada, urged Petro to “request, publicly and privately and together with other Latin American governments, that the Venezuelan authorities urgently revoke this decision.”.
In his letter, Goebertus Estrada highlights that the disqualification of the opponent “violates their political rights and threatens the rights of all Venezuelans to participate in fair and free elections«.
The director reminded Petro that he himself suffered “similar abusive processes» when he was mayor of Bogotá, and considered that the defense of Machado, regardless of political affinity with his ideas, is equivalent to defending the right of all Venezuelans to participate in free and fair elections.
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