The First Vice President of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, once again referred to the opposition primary elections, to warn that the said consultations could not be carried out without the participation of the National Electoral Council
“That election cannot be done without the participation of the CNE, there is no way. What will record ,election, How are they going to count? They have no way of doing it; The CNE is the body to conduct elections and it works well,” Cabello insisted at a PSUV press conference on 15 May.
currently, National Commission for Primary Under the presidency of Jesús María Casal, it organizes meetings with the rectors of the CNE to define the scope of technical assistance to the electoral body. Commission urges Electoral Power to use authorized polling stations for national elections and evaluate use of automated systems, which the agency warned it could not do without fingerprint scanner,
Opinion is divided in the opposition regarding the CNE’s technical support. while primary candidates prefer Maria Corina Machado Reject it on grounds of protecting the identity of voters, like others Henrique Capriles They believe that it is the most convenient because of the issue of resources, speed and scope of the number of polling stations.
Without votes from abroad
The 2020 deputy also reiterated that the CNE is only good for the opposition when they win elections and that the current body of rectors will be in charge of organizing the 2024 presidential elections. He also assured that the issue of primaries is not in the interest of citizens when consulted on the road.
“If the CNE counts the votes, it will know how many people participated, they will not be able to inflate the figures, they will be exposed, their political reality will be exposed,” he said.
Cabello stressed that voters who are abroad will not come just to vote in the presidential election, leaving that it is the duty of the CNE to update the RE outside the country so that the largest number of Venezuelans who have left meet the requirements and exercise their right to vote. The registered data in foreign countries is barely 107 thousand people.
Leaders also cast doubt on the number of migrants abroad, as calculated by the United Nations Agency for Refugees (UNA).UNHCR) over 7 million.
“Those people will not just come to vote, the numbers will automatically drop,” he said.
Relations between adversaries and paramilitary forces
Cabello also referred to the statements of former paramilitary chief Salvatore Mancuso Colombia’s United Self-Defense Forces (AUC), which confirmed on 12 May that the irregular group had dumped the bodies of some 200 of its victims on the Venezuelan border after the destruction of a “cremation furnace” in which hundreds of people had disappeared. He also said that his support had been solicited to overthrow the government. hugo chavez,
In this regard, he pointed to the previous governments of Colombia alvaro uribe I evan duke Due to its ties to the paramilitary forces, like the Venezuelan opposition, led at the time juan guedo,
“They are all in the same conspiracy, they wanted Venezuela to become a drug corridor to the United States. Part of the opposition’s commitment is that drugs can pass through here,” he said.
from position Venezuelan Diaspora For those who want to reach the United States, the leader reiterated that both the US government and the Venezuelan opposition are “guilty” of running a campaign so that young people, mainly young people, leave the country to escape Nicolas Maduro’s government. He assures that emigration has become a “business” that drives a lot of money.
“It’s a business, 3,000 dollars for each migrant, they say 7 million, let’s do the math, that’s money for Smolensky, Guaidó, Borges, Capriles, Machado, López, Ledezma, all of them For” he said.
