Candidate Antonio Ecarri says that the electoral settlement opens a brand new democratic stage

Caracas, June 21 (EFE).- The opposition Antonio Ecarri, candidate for the Presidency of Venezuela, identified this Friday that the settlement to acknowledge the electoral end result, proposed by the Authorities and signed on Thursday by eight of the ten candidates earlier than the Council Nationwide Electoral (CNE), is the start of a “new democratic stage” within the nation.

“Yesterday’s picture, for me, is the start of a brand new democratic stage, of coexistence of all sectors,” mentioned the anti-Chavista – who declares himself “unbiased” -, in keeping with a press launch from the Alianza Lápiz, the formation for which he’s operating for the presidential elections.

Ecarri criticized the absence, on the CNE headquarters, of the candidates Enrique Márquez, of the Centrados social gathering, and Edmundo González Urrutia, normal bearer of the principle anti-Chavista coalition, Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD).

“It’s absurd and clumsy malcrimination to play with the politics of absences in Venezuela,” mentioned the candidate.

The candidate added that it’s “unacceptable” to be the “guarantor of a peaceable change, with out being a part of the agreements.”

«How are you going to guide the pacification of a rustic and a peaceable change should you do not go? I do not significantly like these absence insurance policies, that absence has a whiff of cowardice,” he famous.

Eight of the ten candidates for the presidential elections on July 28 in Venezuela, together with President Nicolás Maduro, signed on Thursday, earlier than the CNE, an settlement that obliges them to acknowledge the end result that the governing physique of the elections proclaims following the recount. of the votes, leaving no room for doable complaints.

Enrique Márquez mentioned this Friday that the popularity settlement is “ineffective”, since its content material is “redundant” and is “incomplete.”

Márquez additionally criticized, throughout a press convention, that the settlement is “unilateral”, as not all of the candidates “have been capable of give their opinion and focus on its content material”, as – he assured – was his case, which is why he refused to attend. to the CNE and signal the doc.

In the meantime, González Urrutia mentioned on Thursday that he was not invited to signal the settlement, which he had beforehand rejected, arguing that the popularity of the outcomes is already contemplated within the Barbados Settlement, signed between the PUD and the Authorities in October, with worldwide accompaniment and assist.

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