Leon explains what the US and Maduro are seeking with their negotiations

After the head of the Venezuelan Government Delegation for Dialogue, Jorge Rodríguez, announced the agreements he reached with representatives of the United States (US), the president of Datanalisis, Luis Vicente León, announced what both countries are seeking with this new negotiation.

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“The mere fact that the US government and the Venezuelan government are starting a new bilateral negotiation around the electoral event means that both sides believe they can win something better than what they have,” he said on his account on the social network X.

He added that both governments may believe they will win the election, “although not necessarily in the same way.”

“In that case, the US would seek to ensure that Maduro carries out the election, without suspending it or disqualifying the candidate (a risk that has been on our minds for weeks), because it believes that this will guarantee the opposition’s victory,” he explained.

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Who benefits most from this negotiation?

“If the opposition is right and there is no way for Maduro to close the gap in preferences, the best thing is for Maduro not to believe it and to be willing to measure himself,” León responded to his own question.

He went on to say that “it is the only way to ensure that the official strategy is not to avoid the election and go down a much more difficult path.”

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“And if Maduro is right and his electoral engineering, combined with his institutional control, is enough for him to declare himself the winner, this was a way to create bridges for negotiation that would not be closed and to avoid a conflict, which would otherwise be very likely,” he said.

“In any case, negotiation is once once more the best scenario,” he concluded.

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