- Waving Venezuelan flags and chanting slogans against the national government, thousands of people began arriving from various points to the Alfredo Sadel square from 4:00 pm. Main photo: José Daniel Ramos
Supporters of the Venezuelan opposition gathered on Thursday, July 25, at Alfredo Sadel Square in Las Mercedes, Caracas, for the closing of the campaign of opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia and leader María Corina Machado.
Waving Venezuelan flags and chanting slogans against the national government, thousands of people began to arrive from various points to the square and gathered on the main avenue of Las Mercedes.
After 4:00, protesters filled places such as the Paseo Las Mercedes shopping center, the Tolón shopping center, the Alfredo Sadel plaza and the Las Mercedes service station, waiting for Machado and Edmundo González to close the campaign.
Juan Carlos Olivero, an activist from the LGBTIQ+ community, also attended the march and stressed the importance of voting for political change on July 28 so that the rights of all citizens are respected.
“This government is going to fall,” chanted members of the Student Movement in front of the Tolón shopping center in Las Mercedes, while waiting for candidate Edmundo González Urrutia.
The PUD pledges to “democratize” Venezuela
The Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD) committed itself on July 25, when it closed its electoral campaign, to begin a process for the “democratization” of the country, if its candidate for the presidential elections on Sunday, July 28, Edmundo González Urrutia, wins. He will compete against President Nicolás Maduro and eight other candidates.
In a document signed by González Urrutia and leader María Corina Machado, as well as the parties that make up the PUD, the coalition stated that “the electoral victory of July 28 will open the doors to a period of democratization that will demand personal and civic virtues,” for which – it said – they will try to “forge an emotional, political and social climate that facilitates it and contributes to the common good.”
With a view to this process, the platform expressed its commitment to “the recovery” of freedom of expression, thought, movement, investment and “living without fear of persecution”, as well as to the promotion of a “firm and lasting unity that faithfully represents the desires for democracy and prosperity” and “a political dynamic of agreements that strengthen” democracy.
The alliance assured that it will follow the “legal and institutional paths” of the Constitution to “return to democracy and freedom” and that it will promote mechanisms that have the objective of healing the “deep wounds” that “the systematic violation of human rights” has “opened” and of “advancing with respect towards justice and peace.”
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2024-07-26 02:29:02
