Caracas (EFE) coalition to confront Chavismo in the 2024 presidential elections.
Former deputies María Corina Machado, Carlos Prósperi, Freddy Superlano, Tamara Adrián and Delsa Solórzano participate in the activity, as well as former governors Andrés Velásquez and César Pérez Vivas and the former president of the electoral body Andrés Caleca.
Velásquez was the first to speak, answering the moderators’ question: What do you have to say to Venezuela?
Next, Prósperi highlighted the need to see this meeting as an opportunity to present proposals to the country, rather than to discuss, and to agree that “the enemy and adversary of the people” is “entrenched” in the Executive, alluding to the called the Bolivarian revolution, in power since 1999.
As a third party at the microphone, Superlano remarked that the primaries face threats, after the Supreme Court admitted for study a request to suspend the process, a situation that, he said, should strengthen the unity of anti-Chavismo.
For his part, Machado dedicated the beginning of his speech to the young, whom he called to trust that “this time they will” remove President Nicolás Maduro from power, after which, he predicted, a government of “order, money and family”, which includes privatizations of “ruined” companies, among which he mentioned the state oil company PDVSA.
Capriles does not attend the opposition debate
Among the notable absentees is the two-time candidate for the Presidency of Venezuela, Henrique Capriles, who this Monday, in a message broadcast on his social networks, criticized the fact that opponents remain “trapped in an internal debate” while Venezuelans wait for the anti-Chavismo leaders propose “an alternative” and unity.
For his part, César Almeida, backed by the political party Unidad Política Popular 89 (UPP89), assured, in various media, that he was not invited to the event, which is held in the Aula Magna of the Andrés Bello Catholic University (UCAB), in Caracas.
The independent candidates Gloria Pinho and Luis Farías confirmed to EFE that they were not invited either.