Caracas (EFE) who will face the ruling party in the presidential elections, scheduled for 2024.
“(On) the 23rd anniversary of Primero Justicia, we have to give Venezuela a gift. From today we tell you: we have a presidential candidate and it is Henrique Capriles Radonski. I think it is a great gift because there is no corner of Venezuela (…) where there is not a poster of Henrique Capriles and, above all, an emotional connection with Henrique Capriles”, said the president of PJ, María Beatriz Martínez.
In a press conference, he indicated that the PJ candidate, currently disqualified from holding political office, will be proclaimed in a “great national political committee” that will be held “next Friday, March 10.”
“This proclamation also establishes the clear, real and concrete possibility of showing the country what has been built and what has been coming out and expressing itself very clearly in these last 6 months,” he said.
Regarding the disqualification of Capriles, Martínez said that “unfortunately, the reality that exists in Venezuela (is that) Venezuelans” have their “political rights disabled.”
“We as Venezuelans are disabled because there is a catalog, a series of commitments that have not been honored up to now (…) We are going there, we are organizing to defeat him (President Nicolás Maduro) and, definitely, he has to guarantee Venezuelans have their political rights and those political rights start from the authorizations”, he added.
Capriles was chosen last Saturday as the favorite in a consultation that his party carried out among the bases, to find out their opinion regarding who should be their candidate for the anti-Chavista primaries.
The former presidential candidate competed in that process with Juan Pablo Guanipa, former vice president of the National Assembly (AN, Parliament), and Carlos Ocáriz, former deputy and politician with a long history at the local level.
