The Venezuelan democratic opposition begins today the electoral campaign that will take it, if Nicolás Maduro does not prevent it, until the primaries on October 22. And he does so in the midst of the onslaught of the Bolivarian revolution against the favorite candidate, the conservative María Corina Machado, an indirect victim of the arrest warrant requested by the Chavista prosecutor, Tarek William Saab, against Antonio Ledezma, who serves as his party’s international coordinator. , Come Venezuela.
The prosecutor has even advanced that he will ask the government of Pedro Sánchez for the extradition of the former mayor of Caracas, who has been in exile in Madrid for six years after fleeing the clutches of the dictatorship. The excuse used on this occasion by Saab are statements by Ledezma to a Venezuelan journalist in Miami in which he stated, according to the Prosecutor’s Office, that a civil rebellion is brewing in Venezuela with the support of a military uprising, which they qualify as treason against Homeland.
“We hope that the Spanish authorities act and that international laws are respected and that not only this person can be prosecuted, but also those who accompany them inside and outside Venezuela in this macabre plan,” added Saab.
The most picturesque aspect of the matter is that during the controversial interview, Ledezma assured that they were having “conversations” with the military, but that it was not a conspiracy. What Machado’s candidacy does insist on is the need to launch “civil disobedience” to put pressure on Maduro so that he is forced to allow Machado to participate in next year’s presidential elections if he finally wins the democratic nomination. .
“This is one more script, a continued harassment of this whole plot that has to do with the pattern of conduct of a regime that develops a whole policy of harassment and persecution against those of us who are dissidents,” Ledezma replied.
Maduro took advantage of the circumstances to activate the Special Anti-Coup Plan, which includes the implementation of the so-called peace crews. “Let him come to Venezuela to lead the insurrection,” Diosdado Cabello, number two of the revolution, mocked from his television platform. Since the first tours of opposition leaders around the country began, attacks and constant harassment followed one another, especially against the centrist Capriles and against Machado.
Luis Ratti, a false opponent who interacts with the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) to end the primaries, announced that he will request an arrest warrant against the opposition leader for “directing a coup plan.”
In the government’s spotlight is María Corina Machado, who not only easily leads the polls for the primaries, but also, according to the latest polls, would easily defeat Maduro himself. The leader of Vente Venezuela is illegally and unconstitutionally disqualified by the Bolivarian government, as are Capriles and Freddy Superlano, the candidate of Voluntad Popular (VP), the party of exiles Leopoldo López and Juan Guaidó.
In total there are 13 candidates participating in the primaries, which cover the entire opposition ideological range: from the conservative right to social democrats and progressives, also including Tamara Adrián, the first trans deputy in Latin America.