In an interview on Friday, Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido announced that he and the rest of the opposition would refuse to participate in any early legislative elections called by the Maduro government.
Maduro allies have suggested they’d like to hold an election for the
National Assembly in January or earlier. The parliament’s term is
officially set to end in December of 2020, and elections would normally
be held a few months before that.
Guaido is the majority leader in the National Assembly, and has used
that position to declare himself the rightful ruler of Venezuela. Guaido
says the assembly will remain in place until Maduro is removed from
power, arguing no free elections are possible until then.
It’s clear Maduro would like to replace Guaido with a parliament leader
more friendly to his continued rule, and it was also raised as a
possibility that fresh elections might resolve complaints about the
manner in which Maduro won. So far its not clear either side is willing
to move forward with that unless they are confident the outcome benefits
them.
Guaido will continue alternating between demanding new elections and boycotting new elections until it’s clear to him it has been properly arranged for the voters to appear to have rubber-stamped his rule.
The US needs to clean up its own electoral system after Clinton edged out Sanders, and during the first elections in Iraq after Shock and Awe the US decided who could and who couldn’t stand. Nothing “free” about any of it.
The important thing…conservatives fail to challenge trump, thereby conceding what remains of conservatism to the backwash of the democratic party.
You are missing the elephant in the room. Guaido won in times when majority had not feel threatened by Guaido political promisses. But once he won — gloves came out, snd population woke up. There is not a chance for him to win election any more, ever. He turns out to be the representative of Venezuela’s descendants of European settlers. They once ruled, and they want to dismantle political system that gave millions of Venezuelans right to vote, and Chavez gave them for the first time — identity cards. Before, they could not participate in anything including having to prove their land ownership rights.
Idiotic American slavery cause champions, are thinking that in Venezuela Guaido represents the country! He had fulled them once — not any more, as it is all now on the table. The former colonists, identifying themselves with European abs American white, are trying to avoid the election where the native Venezuelans will easily win. Whether it is Maduro or not — colonists’s descendants in cities will not win.
And even those he is counting on — no longer participate in rallies. Why? Because they are supportive of their neighbors, Native Venezuelans — and Guaido is on his own. Now US can starve all the native populations in this world — with cheerful approval by its right and left!
All disguisting.