The opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia said Thursday that the opposition he represents will not participate in what he considers “false elections” in the country -where regional and legislative votes will be held on April 27 -, and warned that “there will only be legitimate elections when his claimed triumph in the presidential ones last year is respected.
“We will not participate in farce designed to perpetuate the dictatorship, our priority is to assert the mandate that the people gave us,” he said in a video posted in his X account”.
«It is indescribable what we have lived in this tour of America. Not only the meetings with the thousands of Venezuelans in each country
But each conversation and each insured commitment. Venezuela will be free! ”He said In his opinion, “the regime” of Nicolás Maduro – investigated on January 10 for a third consecutive mandate, after his questioned re -election in the elections of July 2024 – intends to “divert attention with false elections.”
Edmundo González Urrutia
The former ambassador, who has made a tour of several American countries, urged the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB), as “his legitimate commander in chief”, and the different police forces to “enforce the sovereignty expressed on July 28” , and pointed out that, of not doing so, they would participate in “the rupture of the constitutional order.”
“Officers of the Armed Forces and police officers, fulfill their duty, that is their obligation,” said the opponent, in exile since September after denouncing a “persecution.” Likewise, González Urrutia explained that the combination of internal actions led by former deputy María Corina Machado and her “international campaign” are the “spearhead of a strategy that will give its essential results, such as making effective” the “victory”.
I must preserve the presidential credential elected”
“Therefore, I must preserve the credential of president -elect, a quality that will not be extinguished but at the time of assuming power definitely,” he said. The opponent Edmundo González is in Panama, where Marco Rubio arrives this Saturday.
The greatest opposition coalition – the democratic unitary platform (Pud) – ensures that there was a “fraud” in the presidential presidential of which the broken votes are still unknown, despite the fact that the official schedule contemplated its publication. He could also report that Maduro consumed a “coup d’etat” last month with his investiture, rejected by several countries.
