The Bolivarian revolution spares no one, not even its former friends. The Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ), the main pro-government hammer against the opposition, has intervened in the historic Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV), one of its traditional allies, and has appointed an ad hoc leadership made up of Chavismo militants.
In this way, facing the presidential elections next year, the electoral card of the PCV, its headquarters, properties and symbols, remain in the hands of these directors close to the government of Nicolás Maduro. It is the same tactic already used against different opposition parties, such as the social democrat Acción Democrática (AD), Voluntad Popular (VP) and the Christian democrat Copei. Traditional parties of the Venezuelan left, such as the Marxist Red Flag, Patria Para Todos and Podemos, have also suffered the scourge of the revolutionary.
“The government of Nicolás Maduro has consummated the assault against the PCV through an arbitrary judicial sentence, which endorses the imposition of a directive made up of mercenaries at the service of the leadership led by the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV). This fraud The procedural not only creates a serious precedent in the political and legal history of the country, but also exposes the authoritarian, anti-democratic and reactionary character of the PSUV-government, which mistakenly believes that with this maneuver it will subdue the Venezuelan communists”, complained the party of the red rooster, almost centenary, through a statement.
The PCV began to criticize Nicolás Maduro after the economic turn in recent years, which it considered “complacent” with the business community and contrary to the interests of the popular classes. After May Day, the PCV leadership intensified its accusations against the “mafia and corrupt elites” of the government.
An ally of Hugo Chávez since he came to power in 1999, the PCV maintained its independence, even refusing to form part of the PSUV despite the insistence of the “supreme commander”.
Currently, its secretary general, deputy Óscar Figuera, has become the only parliamentarian critical of Maduro in the revolutionary body of the National Assembly (AN). Another twenty alleged opponents make up the group of collaborators with the government.
The drift against the PCV, which included the persecution and even the arrest of several of its leaders, provoked a wave of solidarity from the communist parties of the planet. The ruling party not only ignored these parties, with which it maintains good relations, but also intensified its harassment of the PCV with the excuse of the solidarity shown by its leaders in favor of the opposition candidate María Corina Machado.
And it is that the threats of the Chavista governor Gerardo Márquez (“we are going to beat her out”) caused the stupor of the PCV, which considered it an incitement to violence.
“We will always condemn the political use of justice. Solidarity with the PCV for its intervention through a ruling by the TSJ. Once again, Maduro uses the justice system to get out of the way those who disagree with his disastrous and failed government,” reiterated the opposition candidate Henrique Capriles.
The takeover by force of the PCV is the fourth anti-electoral action carried out by Chavismo in recent weeks. Maduro ordered in June to abolish the National Electoral Council (CNE), despite the fact that he controlled it, and imposed his wife, Cilia Flores, in the process for the appointment of five new magistrates. Later came the disqualification of the conservative María Corina Machado, a great favorite to win the opposition primaries in October, and the veto on the European Union sending its electoral observers in next year’s elections.