Anti-Chavismo evaluates strategies to deal with “threats” in primaries

Candidates for the October 22 primaries – which will choose a candidate to face Chavismo in the 2024 presidential elections in Venezuela – assessed this Monday, during a meeting, the strategies they plan to implement to face the “threats” against these internal of the election, the organizing commission announced.

“The meeting served to assess common strategies against threats to primary elections,” the National Primary Commission (CNP), which coordinated the meeting, said on its Twitter account, without detailing what the plans consisted of. In addition, he assured that the candidates for the primaries share “visions and actions in the process.”

Former governor Henrique Capriles, who participated in the meeting, stressed that the opposition must “continue to fight” against the disqualifications, which are “unconstitutional and undemocratic” and which burden several politicians registered as prisoners, among them himself, apart from María Corina Machado and Freddy Superlano.

The disqualifications, issued in different periods, do not prevent the candidates from running for primaries, as this is an internal matter of the opposition, but they would be prevented from registering with the National Electoral Council (CNE) as candidates for the presidential elections, as a measure that prevents them from holding elective public office.

“We must continue to fight against them within the constitutional and electoral framework. The will of the electorate must prevail, we must work for a rule that always allows Venezuelans to have a choice in elections in the face of the disaster of (President Nicolás) Maduro, despite his actions to promote hopelessness and abstinence,” Capriles said.

Last week, the candidates for the October election promised to stand together against threats against prisoners. This pact was announced after the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) accepted for study the request to suspend the process, initiated by the presidential candidate Luis Ratti, who has been active in Chavismo for more than a decade, and in the last five years has presented himself as independent.