2023-07-19 00:56:36
Opposition presidential hopefuls stand on stage before the start of a debate at the Andrés Bello Catholic University in Caracas (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
The candidates for the opposition primaries in Venezuela agreed to advance a plan to face the actions that arise from the institutions and that may affect the internal ones on October 22, people who participated in a meeting between pre-candidates reported to the EFE news agency on Tuesday. presidential elections held on Monday.
The sources, who asked not to be identified out of respect for an agreement between the candidates not to speak to the media on these issues, agreed that yesterday’s meeting, which took place in Caracas, marked the beginning of work to strengthen the unity once morest the so-called Bolivarian revolution, in power since 1999.
Former deputies Tamara Adrián and María Corina Machado, as well as former governor Henrique Capriles, the three candidates for the primaries, attended this meeting that was held behind closed doors and in the followingnoon in eastern Caracas, without a call to media.
“They talked regarding strategies, not yet fully defined, regarding the obstacles that the Government will place for the completion of the primary and what to do in the case of disqualifications,” explained one of the participants in this first meeting, which closed with the commitment to “define” actions in “following meetings”, even without a fixed date.
The meeting -he added- was “a lot of dissertation” and “few agreements”, without commenting on anything agreed.
Once the meeting was over, the candidate Andrés Caleca described it as “excellent”, in a brief message posted on Twitter (REUTERS / Leonardo Fernandez Viloria)
Once the meeting was over, the candidate Andrés Caleca described it as “excellent” in a brief message posted on Twitter.
“Clearing the way, unity will be consolidated with each step we take together. Good,” she expressed.
For his part, former governor Andrés Velásquez, also a candidate for the October elections, insisted, on the same social network, in his proposal that the strategy “must start from the determination to firmly defend whoever is chosen by the citizens as Presidential candidate.
The politicians who will compete in October agreed to face together the “threats” once morest the inmates, among which are the disqualifications once morest some of them from holding public office and the admission for study of a request for suspension of these elections introduced before the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ).
The disqualifications, imposed in different periods, do not prevent applicants from running in the primaries because it is an internal matter of the opposition, but they would be blocked from registering with the National Electoral Council (CNE) as candidates for the presidential elections.
Last week, the candidates for the October elections, who will define the standard-bearer who will face Chavismo in the 2024 presidential elections, promised to unitedly face the threats once morest the inmates put out by the regime.
(With information from EFE)
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