The Venezuelan regime rejected the Barbados agreement and replaced it with an election proposal for this year

The rule of Nicolás Maduro It continues its activities and sabotage efforts ahead of this year's scheduled presidential elections. This Wednesday it was Jorge Rodríguez, the President of the National Assembly, who announced his latest strategy: Now, Chavismo Barbados ignores the treatyIt was signed in October with mediation by the opposition and the international community as a form of democratic guarantee for elections.

Rodriguez in his opinion, The Election schedule proposal What was achieved in the last hour with the political, social and religious sectors was comprehensive enough to replace the previous document.

“From my point of view, This Agreement is a development of and replaces the Barbados AgreementBecause most people can at least do (…) In other words, The Barbados Treaty is a subset of this whole, a much larger treaty.” explained the Speaker of Parliament.

Likewise, he explained that it is a strong enough proposal, with the approval of 87% of political parties and social, business, cultural and religious organizations. Include “all dates of all proposals”.. He added that it was “much wider” than last year.

After processing about 500 proposals received in 150 meetings, the final document was approved in total 27 possible dates -For the first and second half of the year- it will be delivered this Friday National Election Council (CNE), the only body authorized to issue a call for elections, is closely associated with the ruling party.

“We have 27 dates, and the council will hold technical discussions to call and prepare an election plan. Here are all the proposals: elections should be on May 1, we should have them on May 1, they want it on December 8, we want it on December 8. Yes, we are putting the date and the CNE will decide,” Rodriguez continued. Associated with the regime, the organization hopes to create its will.

This is why the opposition and the international community maintain their distrust of the electoral process proposed by Chavismo, even more if it withdraws from the October accord.

The previous day, Democratic United PlatformIt again expressed its desire to unify the dissenting voices “Review any proposal or document dealing with electoral matters, so long as it is within the Barbados Convention”In an effort to remind Maduro of his commitment to these “political rights and electoral guarantees.”

Also, the European union Willing to send Monitoring work The Speaker of Parliament responded to the electoral event that it should be limited to “impartiality”. “You can't be observant and at the same time think you can be too wrong and too rude to get involved in the country's internal affairs,” he said, referring to the federal sanctions imposed on senior leaders of the Miraflores Palace. , Elvis Amoroso, chairman of the Commission on Elections and former comptroller responsible for disqualifications of politicians.

Meanwhile, last week, the PUD presented to representatives of Norway – the arbiter country – a 33-page complaint document that allegedly violated the agreements signed with the regime, including the recognition of the ban on competing in Maria Corina. .

(With information from AFP and EFE)